Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture by Jenny Odell

Published 2024 · 114,675 words · about 8 hours at an average pace

How hard is Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture to read?

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture scores 55 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
Art-critical, ecological and physics vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
Essayistic sentences of moderate length.
Abstraction: 68 out of 100
Time itself treated philosophically.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Wide-ranging; geology to labour history.

How Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture is regarded

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture holds a literary regard score of 39 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Jenny Odell