Did you know that the average reading speed for an adult is 300 words per minute? That’s almost 5 words per second!

So, if it only took you 4.8 seconds to read the sentence above – then it should only take you 2 hours and 33 minutes to read The Great Gatsby, according to howlongtoreadthis.com, a site that gives you a rough estimate on how long it’d take to read any novel.

But, doesn’t that seem…insanely fast? That amount time spent reading, broken up over the course of a few days, or a week, seem more feasible, especially when How Long To …