How long does it take to read Out of Darkness?
The Story of Louis Braille
Russell Freedman, Kate Kiesler
Out of Darkness by Russell Freedman, Kate Kiesler takes about 1 hour 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 46 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 96 pages, about 26,400 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
Subjects: Braille, Blind teachers, Blind, People with disabilities, Teachers, Biography
