About This Book
Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added more phrases to the language than any man since Shakespeare, whilst his poems incarnated an era for millions of people who did not normal...
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Reading Time Estimates
8h 56m
slow reader
180 WPM
6h 26m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 36m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 96,525 wordsπ
13 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
6 h 26 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
7 h 9 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
10 h 44 min
Audio 2x
5 h 22 min
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- π 13 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π13 commutesΒ of 30 min each