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How long will it take to finish that book? Enter the page count and your reading speed to get the total reading time and an estimated finish date based on your daily reading habit. Free to use, no sign-up required.
Adult reading speed varies a lot with the book's difficulty, its layout, and how focused you are, but for a typical trade book most readers land somewhere between 30 and 55 pages per hour. Page-turner fiction goes faster; dense non-fiction or an unfamiliar subject slows everyone down.
Not sure about your own pace? Read your current book for 10 minutes and count the pages. Multiply by six and you have your pages-per-hour figure — enter it under 'Custom' above for a much more accurate estimate.
| Reading style | Speed | For a 300-page book |
|---|---|---|
| Relaxed — close reading with notes and highlights | ~30 pages/hr | about 10 hr |
| Average — typical adult reading pace | ~40 pages/hr | about 7 hr 30 min |
| Fast — familiar topics, easy fiction | ~55 pages/hr | about 5 hr 27 min |
At an average pace of about 40 pages per hour, a 300-page book takes roughly 7.5 hours in total. Reading 30 minutes a day, that is about 15 days; at an hour a day, about 8 days.
Set a 10-minute timer with the book you are currently reading and count the pages you get through. Multiply that by six for your pages-per-hour. For example, 7 pages in 10 minutes is 42 pages per hour — right around the average preset.
The results are an average estimate. Actual time depends on the book's difficulty, type size and page layout, how many illustrations or tables it has, and your focus on the day. A breezy essay collection and a dense textbook of the same length feel very different — treat the result as a baseline for planning.
Pick a modest daily amount — 30 minutes works well — and read at the same time each day. Writing your estimated finish date on a calendar makes the goal concrete, and jotting down even a short note about what you read helps the habit stick.
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