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.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
Page counts are the softer half of this. Font size, trim size and how much of a book is dialogue all move words-per-page around, so a 150-page hardback and a 150-page mass-market paperback are not the same read. Treat this as a good estimate, not a count.
- 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.
Knowing the number is the easy part.
150 pages a day is a plan. Keeping it is the hard part, and it is easier with company. ReadersGuild opens soon, and it is where people read alongside each other, one session at a time.
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