How long does it take to read The White Dragon?
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey takes about 8 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Dragonriders of Pern
Previous: The Harper Hall Trilogy Next: Dragondrums
About 8 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1978. 468 pages, about 128,700 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 40 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years. When dragons hatch, each gold (the Queen), bronze, blue or green dragon makes a telepathic connection with a child, and they beome inseparable. Naturally, lads destined to inherit and rule the semi-autonomous Holds cannot be part of this Thread-fighting life, but when young Lord Jaxom sees the struggle the last small egg is having, he can't help himself and runs to its assistance. The poor little runt is white and nobody expects it to live long, so Jaxom is allowed to keep Ruth.
Subjects: Pern (Imaginary place), Fiction, Science fiction, Life on other planets, Space colonies, Dragons
