The average reader reads at a speed of 250 words per minute (wpm). Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse has 39 086 words, so the average reader would take 2 hours 37 minutes to read the whole book. How long would it take you to read Siddhartha? Read a paragraph from Siddhartha below to find out!
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