How long does it take to read Makers?
Makers by Cory Doctorow takes about 8 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 43 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 475 pages, about 130,625 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
Subjects: Fiction, Inventors, Technology, Businesspeople, Fiction, science fiction, general, Amusement rides
