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What sort of books are they reading that only has 50,000 words? Lord of the Rings has over 480,000 words for all 3 books. Harry Potter has over a million for 7
by flareback 7y ago
What sort of books are they reading that only has 50,000 words? Lord of the Rings has over 480,000 words for all 3 books. Harry Potter has over a million for 7 books. Enders Game has 100,000.
Plus this isn't taking into account that I like to read more technical about my profession which take me longer.
> The average American reads 200–400 words per minute (Since you’re on Medium, I’m going to assume you read 400 wpm like me)
and that assumption is probably a bad assumption. I do tend to read rather slowly.
- jeena 7y agoFor some reason I never read books and somehow I even got ma bachelor in computer science without reading any of the books but just skimming over some of them. I find it very tiresome to read books, when I sit down with one and start reading I have a 60% chance of falling asleep before I'm done with the second page and a 40% chance that I need to re read the page because I stopped paying attention and didn't remember what was written there. When I read the line with 200-400 words per minute I wondered how fast I am and tested it here: https://www.myreadspeed.com/calculate/ https://www.myreadspeed.com/calculate/ The result: 103 words per minute, it would take me 17 days to read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' when I would read 60 minutes a day consistently without re-reading or falling asleep. Edit: Ok, English is not my first language but I doubt that I'd do better in any of the other languages I know.