How long does it take to read Dayworld?
Dayworld by Philip José Farmer takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Dayworld trilogy
Next: Dayworld Rebel
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's the 35th century where a person is given one day a week to live, work and play and the other six days remain in suspended animation. There are "daybreakers", outlaws, who live seven different lives and Jeff Caird is one of these who finds his life in danger.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction
