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How long does it take to read Binary?

Michael Crichton, Sherri Crichton

Binary by Michael Crichton, Sherri Crichton takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1972. 200 pages, about 55,000 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together - but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States?

Subjects: Weapons of mass destruction, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Terrorism, fiction

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