Reading time
How long does it take to read Cold Days?
Cold Days by Jim Butcher is about 578 pages, so it takes about 10 hours at an average 238 words per minute — about 21 days at 30 minutes a day.
At an average reading speed
10 h 7 min
Cold Days · Jim Butcher · first published 2012
- Pages
- 578
- 30 min a day
- 21 days
By reading speed
| Unhurried reader · 180 wpm | 13 h 23 min |
| Average adult · 238 wpm | 10 h 7 min |
| Quick reader · 300 wpm | 8 h 2 min |
| Very fast reader · 400 wpm | 6 h 1 min |
By daily habit
Your reading speed
| 15 minutes a day | 41 days |
| 30 minutes a day | 21 days |
| 45 minutes a day | 14 days |
| 60 minutes a day | 11 days |
Page count: median of 6 editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
#14 in The Dresden Files
Next in the series: Skin Game (2014, 234 pages)
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Cold Days: reading time questions
- How many pages is Cold Days?
- Cold Days is about 578 pages. That is the median across the 6 editions listed on Open Library; hardcover, paperback and large-print editions differ.
- How long does it take to read Cold Days?
- About 10 h 7 min at 238 words per minute, the average silent reading speed for adults. A quick reader at 300 words per minute needs about 8 h 2 min.
- How many days to read Cold Days at 30 minutes a day?
- About 21 days. At 15 minutes a day it takes about 41 days, and at an hour a day about 11 days.
- What number is Cold Days in the The Dresden Files series?
- Cold Days is book 14 in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.
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