How long does it take to read Headstrong?
Rachel Swaby
Headstrong by Rachel Swaby takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 2015. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Women astronomers, Women physicians, Women scientists, Women biologists, Women mathematicians, Women physicists
