How long does it take to read What Are You Optimistic About??
John Brockman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Brian Greene, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, John Horgan, John McCarthy, Sam Harris, Chris Anderson, Martin Rees, Carlo Rovelli, Daniel C. Dennett, Andrew Brown, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, J. Craig Venter, Douglas Rushkoff, Anton Zeilinger, Leonard Susskind, Geoffrey Miller, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin E. P. Seligman, Freeman J. Dyson, Jerry Adler, Gino Segrè, Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, Robert Shapiro, Frank Wilczek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Lee Smolin, Lisa Randall, Charles Seife, Karl Sabbagh, Alexander Vilenkin, Max Tegmark
What Are You Optimistic About? by John Brockman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Brian Greene, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, John Horgan, John McCarthy, Sam Harris, Chris Anderson, Martin Rees, Carlo Rovelli, Daniel C. Dennett, Andrew Brown, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, J. Craig Venter, Douglas Rushkoff, Anton Zeilinger, Leonard Susskind, Geoffrey Miller, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin E. P. Seligman, Freeman J. Dyson, Jerry Adler, Gino Segrè, Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, Robert Shapiro, Frank Wilczek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Lee Smolin, Lisa Randall, Charles Seife, Karl Sabbagh, Alexander Vilenkin, Max Tegmark takes about 7 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 387 pages, about 106,425 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Nonfiction, Science, Social prediction
