How long does it take to read 150 pages?
A short novel. Common for literary fiction, and for the business books that could have been shorter still.
2h 45m
41,250 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 6 days.
That is 6 sessions with 150 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 4 days.
How many words is 150 pages?
150 pages is about 41,250 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 2 hours 45 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)
- 4 hours 35 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 2 hours 45 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 1 hour 43 minutes
What 150 pages a day gets you
150 pages a day is about 2 hours 45 minutes of reading. Keep it up and an average 300-page novel takes 2 days. Here is what that looks like against books people are actually timing.
Read it with the Guild
Read your 150 pages with friends.
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Fabio JonathanFounder of ReadersGuild