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How long does it take to read It?

How long to read It
about 31 hours
about 442,000 words

It is around 442,000 words, roughly 31 hours of reading. The two-film adaptation runs 304 minutes, about a tenth of the time. The novel cuts between two timelines 27 years apart, which is why the page count is so much larger than the plot summary implies. Published word counts cluster between 437,781 and 445,134, a spread of under 2%.

The numbers

Total
30 hours 57 minutes
In hours
31 hours
Non-stop
1.3 days without sleeping
Covers
about 442,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 31 days

What this assumes

About 442,000 words at 238 words per minute.

Other books

What How long
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone about 5 hours 23 minutes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix about 18 hours
The Hobbit about 6 hours 39 minutes
The Bible about 55 hours
War and Peace about 40 hours
Infinite Jest about 40 hours
Moby-Dick about 15 hours
Ulysses about 19 hours
Dune about 13 hours
Pride and Prejudice about 8 hours 33 minutes
Nineteen Eighty-Four about 6 hours 14 minutes
The Great Gatsby about 3 hours 18 minutes
Animal Farm about 2 hours 6 minutes
The complete works of Shakespeare about 59 hours
The complete Sherlock Holmes about 72 hours as an audiobook
All of English Wikipedia about 41 years

Common questions

How long does it take to read It?
about 31 hours — about 442,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 442,000 words at 238 words per minute.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 31 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked