How long does it take to read The Library of Babel?
Jorge Luis Borges, Nestor Ibarra, Raymond Gid
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, Nestor Ibarra, Raymond Gid takes about 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 44 pages, about 12,100 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction (fictional works by one author)
