Im firmly against these "X minutes to read" estimates because the amount of time it takes to read something is highly dependent on many variables (on both the r

Im firmly against these "X minutes to read" estimates because the amount of time it takes to read something is highly dependent on many variables (on both the reader side and article side). I would much rather have a "Short, Medium, Long, Novel" kind of scale which is simply a scaled word count of some kind.