How long does it take to read 400 pages?
A long novel. Most contemporary fantasy starts around here, and so do most of the literary hardbacks people mean by a serious read.
7h 20m
110,000 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 15 sessions with 400 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.
How many words is 400 pages?
400 pages is about 110,000 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 7 hours 20 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)
- 12 hours 13 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 7 hours 20 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 4 hours 35 minutes
What 400 pages a day gets you
400 pages a day is about 7 hours 20 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 400 pages
From our catalog, between 360 and 440 pages.
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