How long does it take to read Let's Go?
the budget guide to Europe, 1987
Roberto Ignacio Diaz
Let's Go by Roberto Ignacio Diaz takes about 16 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 8 minutes
A long haul
First published 1987. 880 pages, about 242,000 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This series of books was a student-led initiative from Harvard University in the days before the internet was widely available. As such, and prior to the world domination of Lonely Planet, it was a great achievement. Listings were very much that - paragraphs with lists of places of interest, where to stay and eat and prices. It also had good planning information including how to enter the East and what visa requirements there were. Some amusing mistakes (corrected in later reprints, unfortunately) included the Leipzig church description "Mozart and Mendelssohn also performed in this church, and Richard Wagner (of Hart to Hart fame) was confirmed here." Now lost to time and mildew. Robert Wagner, however, did star in Colditz, just down the road.
Subjects: Guidebooks
