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harry potter and the agony of anticipation

Trying to schedule your sequestration this weekend so the end of Harry Potter isn’t spoiled for you? Me too. Let’s see. The book will be 784 pages, and I read about 300 words per minute. (How Many Words-Per-Minute Do You Read?) Now if I had a copy of one of the Harry Potter hardcovers handy, I’d count a few pages to get a figure for words per page. Anybody got a good guess?

Posted by Adam on July 18, 2007 2:30 PM |

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I did some math like this when trying to figure out how long my book should be. I picked up a whole bunch of books, big ones and small ones, and found pretty consistently that they came in at around 350 words per page. So if you're really applying yourself, you ought to be able to blast through it in about 15 hours.

Posted by: jjg | July 18, 2007 7:53 PM

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