One of the best hobbies is reading books, not only because it boosts language, spelling and vocabulary skills, but also because book reading gives enormous and diversified knowledge of whatever the book is about. And if you are lucky enough to have a bundle of still unread books and wonder how long will one take you to finish, then www.howlongtoreadthis.com — a site that calculates your average reading time in which you can finish reading a book — comes in handy.

The idea behind the website How long to read this is to help you keep track of your reading speed and also to help you keep track of the time you allot to a book or any excerpt.

Howzat? I would say wonderful! So once you open the website, you will see a long search bar on the home page where you can search for over 12 million books available in the site’s library.

Your search result comes with a general overview of all of the books matching your search term.

Once you’ve found the book you’re looking for, click on the book’s cover image to go to its page; here, you will find the average readers’ reading time for that particular book.

You can take your reading speed time test by clicking the ‘start’ button on the right side of the screen. When you are done reading, click the ‘stop’ button and in the popup, your specific reading time will be displayed, along with your average reading speed. Once you’ve taken the reading speed test, your reading time for the book will be saved in your browser. Your reading speed will be stored across the site for all the other books. You can also retake the test with any book and see a more accurate estimate.

The site is free, without any ads and doesn’t require you to register. So next time before starting a book, just calculate your reading speed; once you start reading remain focused to the end.

To check your reading speed visit: www.howlongtoreadthis.com

Published in Dawn, Young World, October 27th, 2018

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