Site of the Day for Thursday, May 14, 2020
How Long to Read
Today's clever site offers the prospect of choosing books that stand the best
chance of being finished because readers know at the outset long it will them
to read the volumes on the website's list. Gentle Subscribers will find a
typical timeframe tailored to their reading speed after a brief quiz.
"How Long to Read is a book search engine that helps you find out how long it
will take to read books and provide reading time data that is tailored to you.
With our simple WPM (words per minute) test you can find out how long it will
take you to read almost anything, and also use our search engine to find books
that will fit the time you have to read. ... How Long to Read has been featured
in the New York Times, Lifehacker.com, Yahoo! News, The Independent and other
websites and blogs." - from the website
Although media pundits may conclude that shelter-in-place citizens suddenly
have oodles of time available, it can prove to be even more a time crunch than
normal. To help with this turn of events, the folks at How Long to Read have
devised an algorithm that will give a much more accurate result than a
seat-of-the-pants guess. While some of the most recent books have not been
processed for their word or page counts, literary classics, trusty whodunits,
and many best sellers have been assessed. The site tends to send its visitors
off to Amazon for their book selections but canny readers know that their local
library has a wealth of digital books waiting to be checked out.
Mosey to the site to determine a good fit between personal reading speed and
the books available to fill the time slot at:
https://howlongtoread.com/
A.M. Holm
Comments? Suggestions? amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx
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