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How long does it take to read Infernal Devices?

Philip Reeve

Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of Mortal Engines Quartet

Previous: Predator's Gold Next: A Darkling Plain

About 6 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 358 pages, about 98,450 words. Written for children.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.

Subjects: Science fiction, Children's fiction

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