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Reading the entire English Wikipedia

Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010 Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010 Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010 Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010 Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010 Q: How long would it take to read the entire English Wikipedia? There are over 3,A Million artidles in English Wikipedia. If English Wikipedia was printed and bound in book form, you would get to read 1447 volumes WIKIPEDIA The Free Encyclopedia 1,600,000 Each containing words That's 2,315,200,000 words total If you read at rate of 300 words/minute Non stop 24/7 Didn't take any breaks No sleeping You can finish reading the entire English Wikipedia in 128,623 14 years and 8 months hours Alright, who wants to try? English Wikipedia, hard copy size. 1447 volumes, Each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick. For some it may take less Howard Stephen Berg - world record holder for the fastest reading speed (25,000 words / minute) could read English Wikipedia in about 65 days Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_comprehension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stephen_Berg 2, Sharenator apps Ots human nature to share Generated on October 02, 2010

Reading the entire English Wikipedia

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There are more than 3.4 million articles in the English Wikipedia database and it possible to read all of them - if you have a lot of time on your hands! With all that information at your fingertips, ...

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