How long does it take to read Capital?
Capital by Karl Marx takes about 10 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1867. 579 pages, about 159,225 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 195 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war.
Subjects: Economics, Capital, Communism, Marxian economics, Socialism, Scientific socialism
