How long does it take to read Steve Jobs?
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson takes about 12 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 665 pages, about 182,875 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. - Publisher.
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, History, Inc Apple Computer, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, Computer engineers, Businesspeople
