How long does it take to read A Short History of Nearly Everything?
by Bill Bryson
9h 58m
149,600 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 20 sessions with A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
This estimate uses a representative 544-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is A Short History of Nearly Everything?
A Short History of Nearly Everything is about 149,600 words, estimated from its 544 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 58 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
How many pages is A Short History of Nearly Everything?
- Catalog page count
- 544
- Edition ISBN
- 9780767908184
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.
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