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Alan Watts

The Book by Alan Watts takes about 2 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 51 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1966. 155 pages, about 42,625 words.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 44 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

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Subjects: Self, Self-knowledge, Theory of, Ego, Philosophy, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept

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