How long does it take to read How to Be a Pirate?
How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of How to Train Your Dragon
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About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 221 pages, about 60,775 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 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search of a pirate's treasure.
Subjects: Dragones, Humorous stories, Buried treasure, Vikings, Piratas, Juvenile fiction
