
How long does it take to read The Midnight Library?
by Matt Haig
5h 17m
79,200 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.
That is 11 sessions with The Midnight Library.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
This estimate uses a representative 288-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is The Midnight Library?
The Midnight Library is about 79,200 words, estimated from its 288 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 17 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 The Midnight Library?
- Catalog page count
- 288
- Edition ISBN
- 9780525559474
- Author
- Matt Haig
- Genre
- fiction
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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