How long does it take to read It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet?
James Herriot, Jean Nobes
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot, Jean Nobes takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
James Herriot has settled happily into life as a Darrowby vet, tending to livestock and pets alike – not to mention dealing with his mercurial boss Siegfried and his puckish vet student brother Tristan. Day to day, he finds himself testing entire herds of cattle for tuberculosis; acquiring another generous animal nephew alongside Tricki Woo the Peke (this time, Nugent the pig); fending off a ferocious Great Dane with a rickety chair; and attempting to court a farmer's daughter, the lovely Helen Alderson. (Published in the US as part of the book titled All Creatures Great and Small.)
Subjects: Veterinarians, Biography, Veterinary medicine, Anecdotes, Pamiętnik, Medycyna weterynaryjna
