About This Book
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in Amer...
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11h 52m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 33m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 6m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 128,150 wordsπ
18 days at 30 min/day
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8 h 33 min
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9 h 30 min
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14 h 14 min
Audio 2x
7 h 7 min
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