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Implement Medium-style read times#196

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@leewc leewc commented Mar 29, 2016

This is an enhancement, or a feature suggestion.

Similar to posts on Medium, there's a read time on each article, allowing users to gauge how long it takes to finish the article. Medium's read time is based on roughly 275 WPM, with time included for images, as shown here.

My implementation for this is only for 180 WPM, without accounting for images. If this is something you might like I can definitely work on it and add a more sophisticated counter for images!

As of now it's implemented in posts, and can be turned on using readtime : true on a per-post setting.

I'll be using this in my blog at leewc.com, so I thought I'd work on it here for a Pull request if you're interested. Many thanks for the awesome theme!

There's also the fa bookmark-o styled icon if you prefer. I tried both and it seems the filled one looks better, but I don't particularly have an eye for design :P

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+1 for this one! Nice job!

@mmistakes mmistakes mentioned this pull request Jan 19, 2018
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Estimated reading times for posts have been added in #265 and will land once merged.

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3.0.1 has been released with this feature.

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