How long does it take to read How to Live?
27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
How to Live by Derek Sivers takes about 2 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 23 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2021. 130 pages, about 35,750 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 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
