How long does it take to read The Importance of Being Seven?
The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 5 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of 44 Scotland Street
Previous: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
About 5 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 311 pages, about 85,525 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Number 44 Scotland Street is no ordinary address. The elegant tenement, and the surrounding Georgian quarter of Edinburgh, is home to an extraordinary group of people, including Bertie Pollock--six years old, and impatient to be seven.
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life, Social life and customs, FICTION / Urban Life, FICTION / General, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general
