How long does it take to read Einstein's Dreams?
Alan P. Lightman
Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 179 pages, about 49,225 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.
Subjects: Fiction, Physicists, Time, Dreams, Relativitätstheorie, Belletristische Darstellung
