How long does it take to read 200 pages?
A slim novel. Under the average, and genuinely finishable across a weekend.
3h 40m
55,000 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 8 days.
That is 7 sessions with 200 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 5 days.
How many words is 200 pages?
200 pages is about 55,000 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 3 hours 40 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)
- 6 hours 7 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 3 hours 40 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 2 hours 18 minutes
What 200 pages a day gets you
200 pages a day is about 3 hours 40 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.
Books that are about 200 pages
From our catalog, between 180 and 220 pages.
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