Were you hate-watching Super Bowl 48 and complaining about—well, pretty much EVERYTHING? Did you know you could have spend that time reading a great work of literature?
According to Forbes magazine — which did the math in the article “Do You Read Fast Enough to be Successful?”
— the average adult has a reading speed of about 300 words per minute.
The book publishing standard runs to approximately 250 words per page.
So unless you’re horribly distracted by a giant plate of chicken wings that just aren’t going to eat themselves, you could theoretically finish a 200-page book while your drunk friends are screaming about how shitty [INSERT TEAM YOU HATE] is doing in the Super Bowl.
Of course, in case you need suggestions, PBS rounded up some good ones:
“The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle