How long does it take to read Lettres?
Lettres by Plato takes about 5 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Platonic dialogue
About 5 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 314 pages, about 86,350 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
