> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.lettercamp.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reading time

> Understand automatic article reading estimates and show or hide them on your publication.

Lettercamp calculates an article’s reading time from its content.

Reading time is calculated from the Markdown or MDX body at 200 words per minute,
rounded up to at least one minute. Frontmatter, imports, image URLs, JSX attributes,
and fenced code blocks do not count. Text inside Markdown and MDX elements counts;
text generated by a component at runtime cannot be included in the estimate.
Do not set `readingMinutes` in frontmatter: the calculated value always replaces it.

To hide reading time on article pages, set this in `settings.json`:

```json theme={null}
{
  "post": {
    "showReadingTime": false
  }
}
```

Omit this setting or set it to `true` to show the estimate. There is no manual
reading-time value to configure.


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