The average reader reads at a speed of 250 words per minute (wpm). A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has 28 503 words, so the average reader would take 1 hours 54 minutes to read the whole book. How long would it take you to read A Christmas Carol? Read a paragraph from A Christmas Carol below to find out!
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