How long does it take to read 500 pages?
A big book. Epic fantasy, long biography, the ones people put off because the spine looks like a commitment.
9h 10m
137,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 18 sessions with 500 pages.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 13 days.
How many words is 500 pages?
500 pages is about 137,500 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 9 hours 10 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)
- 15 hours 17 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 9 hours 10 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 5 hours 44 minutes
What 500 pages a day gets you
500 pages a day is about 9 hours 10 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 500 pages
From our catalog, between 450 and 550 pages.
Read it with the Guild
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