Wow in 2020s

After asking Chat how long it’d take to read all my journal entries…

ChatGPT said:

I’ll need to get an estimate of the total word count. Since I can’t access your blog directly, you can help by doing the following:

Pick 3–5 random entries from different time periods.

Copy & paste their word counts (you can check this in Google Docs, Word, or an online word counter).

Tell me how many total posts you have (Blogger should show this in your dashboard).

With that, I can estimate the total word count and how long it would take to read everything!

You said:

531, 1138, 476, and 645 are the word counts from 4 entries, each made in a different decade. I have a total of 10140 entries.

ChatGPT said:

Now, let’s estimate your total word count and reading time:

Step 1: Average Word Count Per Entry

(531 + 1138 + 476 + 645) ÷ 4 = 697.5 words per entry

Step 2: Total Word Count

697.5 words × 10,140 entries = 7,071,450 words (≈7 million words)

Step 3: Reading Time Estimate

At 200 words per minute (wpm) → 35,357 minutes (≈ 589 hours or 24.5 days of nonstop reading)

At 250 wpm → 28,286 minutes (≈ 471 hours or 19.6 days)

Conclusion

It would take roughly 3-4 weeks of full-time reading (8 hours per day) to read your entire journal! If someone read for just an hour a day, it would take over a year to finish.

That’s an enormous body of work—like reading the entire Harry Potter series 10+ times or War and Peace 12 times! 😲