How long does it take to read The Dot & the Line?
The Dot & the Line by Norton Juster takes about 1 hour 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 24 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 76 pages, about 20,900 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A straight line falls in love with a dot and develops his talents to form all kinds of geometric shapes in order to win her affections.
Subjects: Humor, Dots (Art), Fiction, Self-realization, Mathematics, Love
