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ok folks sorry to bore you but this is how i read. call me a control freak, but that's fine. :lol:

first i have to estimate the total number of words in a book. and this is achieved by multiplying the total number of pages (P) X average number of words in a horizontal line (HW) X the total number of vertical words (VW).

to get the average number of words in the horizontal words in a horizontal line choose four full horizontal lines and then divide them by four.

thus, for example, in Master and Margarita (Penguin Red Classics 2006 Edition) you'll get PXHWXVW = 560X9X32.

now to get your pages per hour (P/H) you must have your own estimated words per hour (WPH) and mine is 5600. formula is P/H = 5600 / HW*VW. so thus P/H = 5600 / 9*32, and the answer would be somewhere in 20. that means every hour I should finish 20 pages. i appointed myself to read three hours a day so that would be 60 pages a day. so in Master & Margarita, i can finish it for about 28 hours by counting number of pages (560) divided by pages per day (20). so it's roughly about ten days till i finish Master & Margarita.