How long does it take to read Dictionary of National Biography?
George Murray Smith, Sir Sidney Lee, Sir Leslie Stephen
Dictionary of National Biography by George Murray Smith, Sir Sidney Lee, Sir Leslie Stephen takes about 11 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1885. 623 pages, about 171,325 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 122 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"This new volume of the DNB contains the lives of 1,086 persons who were omitted from previous volumes of the DNB", covering period "from the beginnings to 1985"--Page v.
Subjects: Biography, Bio-bibliography, Dictionaries, Great britain, biography, Indexes, Bibliography
