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**JennaJJxoxoxo** · 09-03-2012, 11:21 PM

Perhaps our brother Arif was exaggerating.... or maybe he has an exceptionally short translation?

I used to have a copy of a translation that was only around 350ish pages, if even that. That's what I was making my assumption on. Aside from that, PouringRain's post inspired me to take a reading speed test (11.6 hours to read 174,000 words seemed really, really slow to me). I found out that I read much faster than an average person, so I had a bias I was unaware of when I made that post. I assumed everyone else could read as fast as I can.

Anyway, my point still stands. It's not a "big ask" for an adult to read 435ish pages or 500 pages. Saying 1000 pages though isn't fair, I've never seen a thousand page translation that was only a translation and not a commentary or tafsir as well.

09-03-2012, 11:21 PM	#20
JennaJJxoxoxo Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 581 Senior Member	Perhaps our brother Arif was exaggerating.... or maybe he has an exceptionally short translation? I used to have a copy of a translation that was only around 350ish pages, if even that. That's what I was making my assumption on. Aside from that, PouringRain's post inspired me to take a reading speed test (11.6 hours to read 174,000 words seemed really, really slow to me). I found out that I read much faster than an average person, so I had a bias I was unaware of when I made that post. I assumed everyone else could read as fast as I can. Anyway, my point still stands. It's not a "big ask" for an adult to read 435ish pages or 500 pages. Saying 1000 pages though isn't fair, I've never seen a thousand page translation that was only a translation and not a commentary or tafsir as well.
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