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How long does it take to read How to Train Your Dragon?

Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell takes about 37 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 37 hours 33 minutes

A long haul

First published 2011. 2,048 pages, about 563,200 words.

76 days (about 11 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 62 hours 35 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 37 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 23 hours 28 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This book tells the boisterous tale of a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt down the fiercest dragon in the land, but ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon.

Subjects: Children's fiction, Vikings, fiction, Dragons, fiction, Humorous stories, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Human-animal relationships, fiction

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