How long does it take to read 300 pages?
The standard novel. When someone pictures a book without thinking about it, this is the length they are picturing.
5h 30m
82,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.
That is 11 sessions with 300 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 8 days.
How many words is 300 pages?
300 pages is about 82,500 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 30 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)
- 9 hours 10 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 3 hours 26 minutes
What 300 pages a day gets you
300 pages a day is about 5 hours 30 minutes of reading. Keep it up and an average 300-page novel takes 1 day. Here is what that looks like against books people are actually timing.
Books that are about 300 pages
From our catalog, between 270 and 330 pages.
Read it with the Guild
Read your 300 pages with friends.
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Fabio JonathanFounder of ReadersGuild