How long does it take to read Battlefield Earth?
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard takes about 19 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 15 minutes
A long haul
First published 1984. 1,050 pages, about 288,750 words.
39 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, space opera
