How Long to Read Writers' Typewriters

How Long Does it Take to Read Writers' Typewriters?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 34 minutes to read Writers' Typewriters by Zoë Sadokierski

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This illustrated book celebrates the relationships writers have with their typewriters. There’s no internet connection on a typewriter. It serves no other function than pressing inked letters onto a page. Its sole purpose is to write. This is why the relationship between writers and typewriters is so focused, singular and intimate. Typewriters that once belonged to famous writers are retired to museum or library archives, inanimate objects that represent the work of an admired individual. From these archives, the author found photographs of 45 writer’s actual typewriters to draw from, and sought anecdotes about each writer’s relationship to their writing machine.Leonard Cohen had a bath with his Olivetti, which ended predictably poorly; a priest told Anne Sexton, ‘God is in your typewriter’; Cormac McCarthy bought a second-hand Olivetti Lettera 32 for $50 and sold it 46-years later for $254,500; Ian Fleming commissioned a gold-plated Royal de Luxe, on which he wrote only one novel; Larry McMurtry thanked his Hermes in his Golden Globe acceptance speech; Raymond Chandler declared, ‘Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.’

How long is Writers' Typewriters?

Writers' Typewriters by Zoë Sadokierski is 93 pages long, and a total of 23,529 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 29% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Writers' Typewriters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 8 minutes to read Writers' Typewriters aloud.

What Reading Level is Writers' Typewriters?

Writers' Typewriters is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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