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How long does it take to read Dragonflight?

Anne McCaffrey

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Dragonriders of Pern

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About 5 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1968. 309 pages, about 84,975 words. Written for children.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 78 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .From the Paperback edition.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence

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Subjects: Pern (Imaginary place), Science Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

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