How long does it take to read Carl Sagan?
a life in the cosmos
Carl Sagan by William Poundstone takes about 8 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 473 pages, about 130,075 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Astronomers, Biography, Scientists, biography
