The average reader reads at a speed of 250 words per minute (wpm). The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky has 242 553 words, so the average reader would take 16 hours 10 minutes to read the whole book. How long would it take you to read The Idiot? Read a paragraph from The Idiot below to find out!
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