How long does it take to read The Influencing Machine?
Brooke Gladstone
The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 200 pages, about 55,000 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.
Subjects: Journalism, Broadcast journalism, Comic books, strips, Journalismus, Hörfunk, Mass media
