How Many Pages Do You Usually Read Per Hour?

How many pages do you generally read per hour?


Let's say that the book is a non-technical book that isn't too difficult to read.

I read zero pages in an average hour, although my average pages per hour is higher than that. Which question do you want to ask?

Well I read the final wheel of time book in about sixteen hours....its about eight hundred pages.

I'd say I read about 50 an hour.

Surely it depends on the size of the pages? And the size of the font? I've got an anthology of Morris novels that's just shy of A4 size, and has several columns of text per page in fairly small type - reading a single page of it, which will quite often contain the majority of a whole chapter, takes quite some time.

The average sized book, typical reading level, and standard font.

I think the highest sum of pages I have ever read in one sitting without a break of any description is forty. The book was David Copperfield. I'm consistently in the 20-30 range. I may have read more than forty when I was younger reading His Dark Materials. Who knows.

Amasing how I do not know how many pages I do read. I do however know how many I write a day. About 2 pages I guess :)

standard novels in English or Icelandic around 30 pages in an hour but surely it depends on all the little details like size and such. I keep very accurate score of how many pages I read, I time it sometimes but most of the times I sum it up.

This is an interesting topic. Another aspect to reading is comprehension obviously. Way back in high school I was tested along with my class for reading speed and comprehension.

Basically we were given something to read. They timed how fast we read it and then tested us on the subject matter.

The people who read more slowly, or carefully, had better comprehension. The faster readers often had lower comprehension, somewhere around fifteen percent lower, but sometimes much lower.

Anecdotal but still interesting i hope.

I envy the unicorns who read fast with high comprehension.

This entirely depends on the book. Assuming a book with about 300-400 words a page (about average in the Oxford and Penguin paperback editions), and assuming the book is relatively simple to understand (ie, not Joyce or Faulkner or poetry), then I can usually read about 50-60 pages per hour. However, I'm mostly reading poetry these days, so my pace slows down considerably (of course, because of the lineation there's also usually fewer words per page).

When it comes to reading pages I have different opinions and Feelings. In fact it is the kind of book I have at hand, for instance if I read Ulysses I will have to read repeatedly and a single page may involve a lot of times and at times an hour. At the same time if I read Milton's paradise it of course gets me to think and think deeply and intensely. And if I read light novels like De Vinci Code it of course takes comparatively less time since I will have to stop at no points at all. In the same vein if i read Dickinson it takes somewhat less time Dostoevsky. Some books get me to think hours and hours and hours and I get lost in a single page for hours. Like Darrida' s grammatology Or Nietzsche' s aphorisms. It is hard to generalize or quantify it and it greatly depends on the person.

37 pph (pages per hour)

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I can read about more than 50 but on a Twilight book in 20 minutes 10 at an average so that would be mean 30 pg. if it were Twilight

For me it depends on how interesting the thing I'm reading is. If it's very interesting I'll stop frequently, stare into space, and think about what I just read, so reading takes a while. If it's not that interesting I'll just tear through it.