How long does it take to read The Dragonriders of Pern?
Dragonflight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon (Pern)
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey takes about 13 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1978. 750 pages, about 206,250 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), American Science fiction, Dragons, Life on other planets, Space colonies
