How long does it take to read The Know-It-All?
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs takes about 7 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 389 pages, about 106,975 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacob's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z." "The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically descriptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs' life - from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at Esquire. Jacobs' project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavors to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Encyclopaedia Britannica, History, Intellectual life, Learning and scholarship, United states, intellectual life
