How long does it take to read Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois?
Newton Bateman
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois by Newton Bateman takes about 18 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 16 minutes
A long haul
First published 1899. 996 pages, about 273,900 words.
37 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 30 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is essentially two separate volumes packaged together. The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois is over 600 pages. Over half the entries appear to be biographical, and the majority of the rest appear to be towns and counties. The second half is a county history.
Subjects: History, Biography, Dictionaries, Dictionaries. [from old catalog]
