The average reader reads at a speed of 250 words per minute (wpm). Moby Dick by Herman Melville has 206 398 words, so the average reader would take 13 hours 46 minutes to read the whole book. How long would it take you to read Moby Dick? Read a paragraph from Moby Dick below to find out!
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