How long does it take to read 100 pages?
A novella, or a short nonfiction book. About the shortest a thing can be and still read as a whole book rather than an essay.
1h 50m
27,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 days.
That is 4 sessions with 100 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 3 days.
How many words is 100 pages?
100 pages is about 27,500 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 1 hour 50 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
Words per page move with font and trim size, so treat this as a good estimate rather than an exact figure.
- Slower (150 wpm)
- 3 hours 3 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 1 hour 50 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 1 hour 9 minutes
What 100 pages a day gets you
100 pages a day is about 1 hour 50 minutes of reading. Keep it up and an average 300-page novel takes 3 days. Here is what that looks like against books people are actually timing.
Books that are about 100 pages
From our catalog, between 85 and 115 pages.
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