If you were able to scan straight through without any break of serve , how long would it take the average person to read all of Harry Potter , Lord of the Rings , or Game of Thrones ? This infographic estimates how long it will take at average reading material speed to get from beginning to end .
Personal Creationsbased this chart on the ordinary grownup reading upper ( some 300 words per moment ) and the word number in each Bible . So naturally , it will vary a second from person to individual ( and in all likelihood from writing style to piece of writing style)—and it does n’t take into story rereading names until you figure out how to pronounce them , rereading gorgeous descriptions of scene , or skipping chunks of John Galt ’s speech in Atlas Shrugged . But it does give you a sense of the comparative time investment you ’ll put into different books and series , and reminds us just how long A Song of Ice and Fire already is .
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