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The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

132 pages

About This Book

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally _salao_, wh...

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Reading Time Estimates

3h 22m

slow reader

180 WPM

2h 25m

average reader

250 WPM

1h 44m

fast reader

350 WPM

📖 36,300 words📅 5 days at 30 min/day

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WPM

Reading time

2 h 25 min

at 250 words per minute

Audiobook (1.5x)

2 h 41 min

at 1.5x narration speed

Audio 1x

4 h 2 min

Audio 2x

2 h 1 min

That's about:

  • 📅5 days reading 30 min/day
  • 🚇5 commutes of 30 min each