Estimated Reading Time

[courtg9000]

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?

 

[jamesbrown]

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).

 

[courtg9000]

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

 

[Baddish]

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.

 

[courtg9000]

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

 

[d000hg]

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.