How long does it take to read The Way Things Work?
C. Van Amerongen
The Way Things Work by C. Van Amerongen takes about 10 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1967. 591 pages, about 162,525 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
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