How long does it take to read Diggers?
Diggers by Terry Pratchett takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Bromeliad Trilogy
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 224 pages, about 61,600 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they really mess everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened, and the nomes must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub? Diggers is the second title in a hugely inventive and hilarious fantasy trilogy about the nomes, a race of little people in a world of humans.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Computers, fiction, Department stores, fiction
