After installing Readism, all you need to do is open an article and the extension will tell you how long it estimates the average reader would take to finish this particular text. That prediction appears in the extension’s button in Chrome and as a notification in bottom right corner that you can disable. MORE: Best Chromebooks Available Now While you wait for that feature, you can use the Readism website to predict how long it will take you to finish a book. To do that, the site gives you a selection to read and a button to tell it when you’re done. It then quizes you on your reading comprehension. Then, you tell it what book you plan to read and it will spit out a personalized result indicating how long it will take you to read that book. The extension for the average reader seemed accurate in our testing. It estimated you’d only need 2 minutes to read a brief report about Prince’s album sales, but a critical analysis of Beyoncé’s Lemonade would require 7 minutes. When it came to our in-depth review of the 2016 MacBook, Readism predicted the average user would finish the article in 13 minutes. Those seemed to jive roughly with my experience.
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