Reading-time calculator
How long would it actually take?
Choose a book and a pace. Every figure is measured from the edition we send, at 240 words a minute — so the answer is the same one you will get on the day you subscribe.
Eight weeks from now, you will have finished Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
How long it takes to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
By email
At the pace you set above.
- Emails
- 53
- Each email
- 2–3 min
- Sent
- Every day
- Last one arrives
- —
The book shows up; you just read what is in front of you.
On your own
Straight through, at the minutes you can honestly spare.
- Words
- 26,643
- Reading time
- 1 hour 51 minutes
- At 10 minutes a day
- 12 days
- Finished around
- —
That is the plan that usually dissolves by week two, because it depends on you remembering.
Word counts are measured from the public-domain editions we serialize, not estimated, and every span above is 240 words a minute against them. Books are cut at their own seams rather than to a length, so installments vary either side of their average — the Sonnets run under a minute, a Sherlock Holmes story twelve or thirteen minutes.
Browse the Library for installment counts, sample installments and reading notes on every book.