I’m rather slow in my reading, but mostly because I want to read leisure stuff for comprehension, thus, it takes me about a week to get through a 300-350 page book.
How about you?
Usually about two days. Less if it’s not a work day.
If it’s workdays, a couple days. On a weekend I could clear a 350-page book in a single day, easily.
Five hours, give or take. I can read a mass market size page of print in 30 seconds. I figured this out over the years because I like to read while cooking. It’s quieter than setting the timer on the oven. So biscuits go in oven, read 20 pages, check biscuits, one or two more pages, biscuits done. Read rest of chapter while eating warm biscuit with butter. I do read some things very slowly. I love novels & anything written before the popularization of television will take me longer.
It very much depends upon the complexity of the writing. I can read a Jonathan Kellerman mystery in a day or 3, but reading Dune, about 2 1/2 times as long, took me 3 weeks…
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If the book is a real page-turner, about 1 minute per page (not counting going back over sections that I like). So a 350-pager would take me about 6 hours of solid reading. Rare these days to find a book that good, but they’re out there.
If it’s a page-turner (like a John Grisham book), between two to four days. Anything else, maybe a week to ten days with my current schedule
On a day whith nothingmuch to do, I’ll kill a 350-page book in about five hours. I finished HP & the Order of the Phoenix in ten.
Yeah, straight-through. I’m a geek.
My Brother timed me when I was younger. I was readin 170 page books in an hour 5 min. I don’t know if I’ve gotten slower, but I like to take my time now. Maybe two days? Unless it’s really good.
About the same–5 hoursish. That’s if I like the book and I’ve got the time. It depends. I picked up The Eye of the World last night and felt my eyes glazing over instantly.
Fluff or something I’m interested in…1½ to 2hrs
Very involved or very boring 1 to 4 days
The above time estimates only apply if nobody is bothering/wants something from me
I went to bed at 11:00 last night with the new Terry Pratchett book, and didn’t go to sleep until I was finished with it at 5:00 AM. 353 pages in about six hours.
On the other hand, I’ve been reading Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses for a month now, and am barely two hundred pages into it.
If it’s something that doesn’t require too much analysis, such as fiction for pleasure, 3 to 5 hours, depending on how “into it” I am.
I can read about a page a minute or less, if the book is a real “page turner” or if it’s kind of “fluffy.” (Harlequin Romances—which I don’t read all that often—fall under that category.) I can read a 180 page Harlequin in about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. No problem. I used to have a job where we had plenty of time to read or watch TV, and I could almost finish two Harlequins in a shift.
But for more substantial books, maybe a page a minute or a little more. I think I could get a 350 page book done in 7-9 hours.
I guess it depends on the book. If I’m enjoying it my mind will kinda zone out and I fly through the pages absorbing what’s going on really quickly. Defiantely putting me well within the page a minute range. Although now I ration myself to just a few chapters at a time with breaks in between since my eyes tire more easily then they used to.
If however I want to really get the point of a book and its arguments then I’ll much slower and aloud. For some reason I adopt a refined British accent too. That takes much longer.
It depends on how “into” the book I am. My time in reading a book of that length has taken anywhere from a week and a half to a day and a half.
I average about a page a minute, slower for dense stuff, faster for fluff.
I timed myself while reading the unabridged version of Stephen King’s “The Stand.” 20 hours 34 minutes.
Just out of interest, Annie, why did you time yourself?
Depends on the book. If I love it, about 5 or 6 hours. If I am struggling with it, it could take months.