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A week ago, I asked why the word counts of novels aren't common knowledge, and why there's no equivalent of How Long to Beat? for books.
I stand corrected. I wish Goodreads would buy it out and merge it into their platform.
Kindle has a time to finish chapter/book estimate setting that is usually pretty good. Other than that i read about 100 pages an hour fiction.
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Won't this be pretty misleading for a lot of books? A flat x wpm won't really tell you how long you'll spend on a quality work of literature, unless you read like an unthinking automation, who would plow through Homer without stopping to reflect.
I feel like for that kind of thing people don't really need exact metrics, they just need a sense of perspective. So if you know reading the odyssey takes you 17 hours when the site says 7.5, and the site says the iliad takes 10.5, it'll probably take you about 22 hours to read it. That's how I use hltb - it reckons Hollow Knight takes 40 hours to beat, but it took me 60, so something like Aeterna Noctis will probably take me 50 hours since it says 30. Or like, it says just cause 2 takes 86 hours to fully complete, but I spent a hundred hours in just the demo so it's probably going to take me the rest of my life.
That makes sense. I also take longer to finish games than the people who populate HLTB claim. Sometimes much longer. Not sure why.
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