How Long Would it Take You to Read a Book

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I used to read a lot more when I was younger. There was a distinct shift after I finished graduate school. Reading had become very academic for me and I think I burned out on it somewhat. Over the past several years, I can count the number of books I have read all the way through on two hands. Also I found it harder to concentrate on reading once I had begun to suffer from psychosis and depression etc., my mind was just so filled with other things that I couldn't focus on the book, and it seemed trivial. Before that I was almost always reading something.

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My best could go between less than half a day to a full day. My usual may go twice as long if not longer.

Growing up, I may or may not have language issues.
Tests already shown that I do have issues in verbal abilities, yet performance at school says otherwise. Although the issue truly starts to show at work.

It's something to do with how I process words, both spoken and written.
Something just always feels unnatural to me, no matter how I'm used to it.


I never hated reading and writing, I had no visual processing issues or academic related learning disability...
I just... Compensate (probably the whole time even now) and found my learning style.

Barely gave a damn about reading at all until I was 14.
Probably never been interested at reading fiction AND bother any academic reading until 15-16.

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Yes, like a lot of simple questions I see, these days I can't give a simple answer that's worth anything. Practically everything seems to depend on a whole plethora of variables.

It's something to do with how I process words, both spoken and written.
Something just always feels unnatural to me, no matter how I'm used to it.

This really resonates with me! I find reading to be uncertain and difficult. Words sometimes seem to float away from my eyes, eluding me like I was trying to eat soup with a fork. Slogging through a paragraph of text can be frustrating on a bad day.

In the 6th grade I could probably read that in a day/day and a half, but I haven't really read that much since then. I could still do that but I doubt I'd try to, it'd most likely take closer to a week or something.

I'm a relatively slow reader. It would probably take me 2 - 3 weeks to get through a 300 page book.

How Long Would it Take You to Read a Book?

35 years and counting.

I read article on the internet and watch youtube videos.

It would depend on a lot of things:
How much time available I had to read
the size of the book itself and the print within
whether or not it's catching or boring (if the latter, very likely would DNF it)
disturbances around me
headache wold make me read slower or not at all
how much 'air' there is in the book vs text wall
long or short chapters (much easier to start a short chapter and plough on than start a long one; will never understand how anyone can be opposed to short chapters - and I say that as someone who has loved reading exciting books her entire life)
fiction vs non-fiction; I read fiction so much faster than non-fiction
how many other things there are that I would rather do

anything from read in a day to finished after x years and all the way to DNF

Not all books have the same number of words or complexity of vocabulary, but on average this year, I've read 130 pages (or 36,000 words) a day. Since the start of June, I've averaged 206 pages (or 59,000 words) a day.

I generally read at least 50 pages a day, and sometimes on the weekend I've read as many as 600 pages when I have nothing else to do.

Like a lot of people mentioned here, it really depends with what is going on in my life. I recall reading "The Plague" by Albert Camus, which is 320 pages (at least according to Barnes and Noble, because I can't remember how many pages it was), and it took me days to finish it. But then again, I was in school at the time, and was reading between classes and in class (I read when I need a break to process stuff), and...yeah, school doesn't give much time out for reading. I hope I can re-read the book if I find it again to see how long it would take now I have more time to read. On average, most books I read can take from 30 minutes to an hour, if I read continuously over time (from me timing it). At least from the current books I'm reading (which are usually 100 pages long). Reading is one of my strengths so I don't know if it affects how fast I can read.

My page turning rate for fiction can be quite high if the author does not keep my attention. I will regularly skim the text, looking for the next event that advances the plot. If I don't find a character description interesting, I skip it. If two people are talking but not saying anything, skip it. Fill the pages with people verbally debating and sparing (like in Foundation's Edge, which I'm re-reading), and I'll read ever word.
I can read two books a week when motivated. (300 pages is a pretty standard length.) It is good that my library is loaning books again!

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It took me two weeks to work through a 576 page biography that was written in pretty accessible prose (except for a few technical parts that made my eyes glaze over).

Honestly, I read a ton and books are one of my obsessions. I don't like to be too far from my Kindle ever and have a bunch of books on it as well as a large amount of physical books in my bedroom. I honestly would probably be able to read that length book in maybe an hour and a half, but it depends on distractions. If I'm 100% alone, I could probably finish it very quickly. If I'm distracted, it would definitely take longer.