The Convict and Other Stories By James Lee Burke
The Magicians’ Daughter By S. C. Butler
The Kind One By Tom Epperson
A Kiss In Time By Alex Flinn
Nobody Move By Denis Johnson
Long Gun By Les Savage, Jr.
The Associate By John Grisham
This Side Of Heaven By Karen Kingsbury
Garbage, Waste, Dumps, and You By Connie Colwell Miller
Name That Style By Bob Raczka
Undone By Karin Slaughter
On October 10, the FM Half Marathon will start and finish next to the New Main of the Fargo Public Library (see details here). That led a few of us FPL staffers to wonder what it would take to read a half marathon, which would be 13.1 miles of type.
The calculations work out to something like this:
A half marathon is 830,016 linear inches. A standard paperback has 4 inches of type per line and 38 lines of type per page. For a hardcover adult title, it was 4.5 inches of type per line and 37 lines per page. So the range of pages to read a half marathon would be from 4,985.1 pages for hardcover books to 5,460.6 pages for paperbacks. Yes, the amount of white space at chapter breaks could vary widely, and most people don’t read exclusively paperbacks or hardcovers. So let’s round it off to 5300 pages.
Are you up to the challenge? Can you go the distance and read a half marathon by October 10?
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