About This Book
Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice. It was also a metaphor for journalists and other writers of ephemeral publications and, by implication, the infant newspaper industry. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, journalists were held in low regard, even by their fellow...
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7h 44m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 34m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 59m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 83,600 wordsπ
12 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
5 h 34 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
6 h 12 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
9 h 17 min
Audio 2x
4 h 39 min
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- π 12 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π12 commutesΒ of 30 min each