How long does it take to read The Code Breaker?
Walter Isaacson, Kathe Mazur, Sarah Durand
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, Kathe Mazur, Sarah Durand takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A scientific biography of Jennifer Doudna, a founder and co-developer of the CRISPR gene-editing mechanism, and an examination of what happened after CRISPR hit the marketplace.
Subjects: Immunogenetics, Women scientists, biography, Biochemists, Genetic engineering, the scientific process, biotechnology
