How long does it take to read Tom Swift and His Wireless Message?
Or, the Castaways of Earthquake Island
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message by Victor Appleton takes about 3 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Tom Swift
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About 3 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1911. 174 pages, about 47,850 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message is the sixth book in the original Tom Swift series."Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading.""These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good."This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Technology, fiction, Islands, fiction
