Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Published 2011 · 672 pages · 200,000 words · about 13 hours at an average pace · Biography, Business & Self-Help, Media & Technology, Nonfiction
How hard is Steve Jobs to read?
Steve Jobs scores 19 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 28 out of 100
- Technology and business terminology. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Abstraction: 25 out of 100
- Concrete biography. Analysis embedded in narrative.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Dense with biographical detail, technology history, and business narrative.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Chronological biography. Direct, transparent.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Jobs and Apple function as symbols of American innovation.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Isaacson lets the contradictions speak for themselves.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- The biography concludes with Jobs's death.
- Structural complexity: 25 out of 100
- Chronological with thematic sections. Well-organized.
How Steve Jobs is regarded
Steve Jobs holds a literary regard score of 46 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.