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How long does it take to read The Hobbit?

How long to read The Hobbit
about 6 hours 39 minutes
about 95,000 words

The Hobbit is about 95,000 words and takes under seven hours to read — a single day. Peter Jackson's film adaptation runs 474 minutes in the extended editions, meaning the films take nearly twenty minutes of screen time per thousand words of book. For comparison, the Lord of the Rings extended films manage about ninety seconds per thousand words. That ratio is the clearest possible statement of what stretching one short children's book into three feature films involved.

The numbers

Total
6 hours 39 minutes
In hours
6.7 hours
Non-stop
0.3 days without sleeping
Covers
about 95,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 7 days
As an audiobook
11 hours 8 minutes

What this assumes

About 95,000 words at 238 words per minute. Editions differ slightly.

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 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
It about 31 hours
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 The Hobbit?
about 6 hours 39 minutes — about 95,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 95,000 words at 238 words per minute. Editions differ slightly.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 7 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked