How long does it take to read The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu?
Joshua Hammer, Paul Boehmer
The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer, Paul Boehmer takes about 6 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 354 pages, about 97,350 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
Subjects: Librarians, Libraries, Arabic Manuscripts, Islamic learning and scholarship, Cultural property, Destruction and pillage
