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Dead Wake
by Erik Larson
450 pages2015
History
About This Book
On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, its submarine...
Reading Time Estimates
11h 28m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 15m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 54m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 123,750 wordsπ
17 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
8 hours 15 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
9 hours 10 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
13 hours 45 min
Audio 2x
6 hours 53 min
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- π 17 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π17 commutesΒ of 30 min each