Average Time To Read A 300-page Book Novels & Stories

~Hannah’s Point of View~ “Why don’t you finish the end,” Pax says, handing me the book. I make a face, hating that he’s putting me on the spot. But it’s been two days of everyone taking turns reading the story on and off. I’m ready to hear the end already! “It’ll take me ten times as long to get through it,” I whine, hating that I sound pitiful. He shrugs. “It’s a few pages,” he says, like it's no big deal.

Taking it, I settled down on one of the plush sofas, which somehow didn’t reek of dust, and began to read. Twenty minutes later, or so I thought, I heard Rachel’s voice. “Time’s up! We have to go!” I immediately protested. “But I’ve only been reading for twenty minutes!” I raised my brow as I observed my friends exchanging confused expressions, including Diana. “You’ve been reading that particular book for more than three hours, Dora,” Levina stated, staring at the book. The intensity of her gaze, mirrored by the others, made it clear they were curious about what had occupied my time, especially since it wasn’t a large volume.

Elma said, “Looks like peace.” Destiny said, “It was. You should come next time.” Elma said, “I will. If I have time.” Destiny put phone down. Looked at her hard. Destiny said, “You have time now. Use it.” The words sat between them. Heavy but warm. Like a blanket. Elma nodded. Didn’t promise. Didn’t lie. Just nodded. Elma talked about the book she finally finished. Not wrote. Finished reading. 300 pages. Paper. No screen. Took her two weeks. One chapter a night.

For the first time, Jane and Lucy smiled at each other. That day, Jane tried to pay attention to Lucy's long, breathless explanations of the day's new batch of equations. During study hall that day, Jane actually studied. She wasn't going to be able to finish all 422 pages of A Tale of Two Cities in fourteen days unless she forced herself to read at least 30 pages – 30 whole entire pages – every single day, including weekends. She was up to page 90 so far. If she had picked the 103-page book about a dog that Emily had found for her, she would be almost finished by now. Except that she wouldn't have started it yet. She and Emily always put off reading their book-report books until the night b

The document he was reading had at least twelve pages. I could see the stack of them beside his legal pad, and he'd been on approximately the fourth page when I'd come in, which meant, by any reasonable estimate of his reading speed, which I had had no reason to calculate but had apparently calculated anyway, he should have moved to page six by now. He was on page four. I looked at my coffee. He turned the page. To page five. He read approximately half of it. His hand came to the coffee cup. He drank. He set it down. He looked at the page.

Casually skimming through one, it took him a few hours to get to its last. Looking at the other two, he took a quick break by noting down some terms in his electric notepad. After a quick summary, he then read the second book, reading to its half, he left it there.

I ask again for clarification. "I told you. Once you've read the entire book," he says nonchalantly. "The book is, like, 500 pages. That'll take me ages. By the time we start, I won't even remember what's on the first ten pages," I grumble. "Then you'd better get started, little bean," he teases.

He asked, jerking me out of my thoughts. I chuckled softly. "It is 150 pages. I believe you can do it." "Thanks for believing in me. But, 150 pages is a big deal to me. I will finish the book in three and a half weeks though, depending on how interesting it is." He said. "You are unbelievable. You should try reading books. Reading should be a hobby for everyone." "You should try playing football. Football should be a hobby for everyone." "Football is difficult." I uttered.

I finally said, staring at her with every inch of annoyance in me. “How many hours are we going to take to read these books; it will take an eternity,” I growled, staring at how many books were right in front of me. “They are 50 books in total with 400 pages each. It will take us through the night if we read each book at a speed of 13 minutes. “You are crazy, Clara,” I said almost immediately while glaring at her. I mean, that's not even achievable, “that goal isn't realistic,” I finally voiced out while staring at her.

" How about we make a deal? You finish one book in the next three days then you'll get access to the internet? " " In three days? I can't even finish this in a week! " " How about you get to page two hundred in three days then? " I flipped the pages over at once till I get to the last, page which was four hundred and two. " I can do that. " I look back at him. His eyes are fixed and squinted at the same time and then a straight line draws at the center of his lips before it draws up in a curve. " Perfect. " It was the most epic smile I ever witnessed, coming from him.