How long does it take to read Takeover?
Takeover by Madeleine Ker takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
He didn't give a damn about tradition. When Nash Canfield, abrasive enfant terrible of journalism, took over the staid old Lancashire Herald after the death of Christine's father, her conservative outlook clashed violently with his radical views. Christine was horrified at the raw commercialism that was reviving the newspaper's readership---and furious that she'd become little more than a rubber stamp to Nash's endeavors. Relentlessly he invaded her working world. And it seemed he planned an equally disturbing invasion into her personal life...
Subjects: Newspaper publishing, Fiction, Fiction, general
