Reading

“Suppose that you read slowly, say about 20 words a minute. This means that in twenty minutes you can read about five thousand words. An average book has about 400 words to a page. So you could read about twelve-and-a-half pages in 20 minutes. Suppose you discipline yourself to read a certain author or topic twenty minutes a day, six days a week, for a year. That would be 312 times 12.5 pages for a total of 3,900 pages. Assume that an average book is 250 pages long. This means you could read 15 books like that in one year.   Or take a longer classic like John Calvin’s Institutes (1500 pages in the Westminster Edition). At 20 minutes a day and 250 words a minute and 6 days a week, you could finish it in 25 weeks. Then Augustine’s The City of God and B B Warfield’s Inspiration and Authority of the Bible could be finished before year’s end.”   John Piper