How long does it take to read Trainspotting?
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- death of a child
- animal death
- abuse
- drug use
Subjects: Fiction, Drug addicts, Young men, Scotland, fiction, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Fiction, general
