Collected extent · 12 works
Various
12 works measured — 1,141,478 words in total, roughly 76h 06m of reading at an average pace.
Works measured12public domain
Total words1,141,478combined
Reading time76hall works
Average grade8.0Flesch–Kincaid
SOURCE·Project Gutenberg full texts·12 editions counted, one rule·REVIEWED JUL 2026
The works, longest first
| Work | Words | Reading time | Grade | Unique words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 | 180,862 | 12h 03m | 9.6 | 12,424 |
| Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men | 170,308 | 11h 21m | 9.8 | 11,109 |
| Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923 | 140,115 | 9h 20m | 7.3 | 12,686 |
| Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1923 | 114,863 | 7h 39m | 7 | 12,056 |
| Boys and Girls Bookshelf | 90,769 | 6h 03m | 7.2 | 7,579 |
| Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | 80,117 | 5h 20m | 5.9 | 8,987 |
| Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 | 79,299 | 5h 17m | 7 | 8,577 |
| Astounding Stories, August, 1931 | 77,614 | 5h 10m | 6.7 | 8,918 |
| Astounding Stories, June, 1931 | 74,712 | 4h 59m | 7 | 8,149 |
| The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. | 60,752 | 4h 03m | 7.8 | 8,482 |
| Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 | 51,319 | 3h 25m | 6.3 | 7,381 |
| Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 | 20,748 | 1h 23m | 14.3 | 4,444 |
Only works with a Project Gutenberg plain-text edition appear here, so a bibliography will be longer than this table. What is counted, and what is struck first.
