How long does it take to read How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself?
Robert Paul Smith
How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself by Robert Paul Smith takes about 2 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 18 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1958. 125 pages, about 34,375 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here are some things you can do following the instructions in this book: Make a spool tank (a homemade windup toy that creeps forward slowly like an army tank); a "button buzz-saw;" a handkerchief parachute; a harmless handkerchief "blackjack." Make a squeaky noise with two blades of grass. Do cool things with dandelion stems and leaves. Make a little basket out of burrs. Put your name on a pencil. Give a pencil a decorative checkerboard grip. Play Mumbly-Peg with a boy scout knife. Make a bracelet out of a clamshell. Make a needle dart. Make a leather sucker. Play "killers" with horse chestnuts. Make a Spanish bolas with horse chestnuts. Make a bull-roarer, an indoor boomerang, an outdoor boomerang, several kinds of slingshot, a throwing-stick. Make a bow and arrow out of a broken umbrella. Make polly-noses from maple tree wing things. Pop jewel-weed pods. Make pussy-willow bees and cats. Make a pin piano. Make a "bavoom-thing," a peach-pit basket, a rubber-band-powered paddlewheel boat, a paper airplane, a paper helicopter, and a thing made from a wishbone that surprises people by jumping suddenly into the air.
Subjects: Amusements
