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    Estimated Reading Time

    On some websites (Linkedin I know has used it) there is a little automated widget that says: "Estimated Reading Time x minutes"
    Does anyone know if such a beast exists for Word Documents and where humble old me might be able to put their hands on it please?
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    No, but the word count is right there (bottom left) and you can assume a reading speed of, say, 193 words per minute (depending on the nature of the content, I suppose).

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      #3
      Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
      No, but the word count is right there (bottom left) and you can assume a reading speed of, say, 193 words per minute (depending on the nature of the content, I suppose).
      That's a good shout for a manual solution that would work and is not over onerous.

      Thank you kind Sir
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        #4
        You may look into the implementation on the kindle paper weight - they are doing time left in book/chapter by percentage as well as time in hours and minutes. I don't know how open source this is though.

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          Originally posted by Baddish View Post
          You may look into the implementation on the kindle paper weight - they are doing time left in book/chapter by percentage as well as time in hours and minutes. I don't know how open source this is though.
          Probably wouldn't be that portable to Microsoft Word. I went with the solution above yesterday and its not over onerous so will just continue with that for now
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            #6
            An ideal solution would adapt to your reading speed but you can probably read a few pages and decide your own speed and it'll be good enough.
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