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How long does it take to read The Binding [large print]?

Bridget Collins

The Binding [large print] by Bridget Collins takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 30 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2019. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 30 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 19 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a book binder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it ...

Subjects: England, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, magical realism

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