How long does it take to read How to Raise an Elephant?
How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 21 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Previous: To the Land of Long Lost Friends
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2020. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, women
