How long does it take you to read a book?

[ultimateownage]

It takes me about 5 hours to read most large books; when I'm ill and have nothing to do I usually end up reading close to 4 books in a day. Unfortunately, I usually don't have those 5 or so hours alone next to a book.
I got 305w/m and 10/11 questions correct.

 

[Trololo Punk]

If i really get down to reading and avoid my other hobbies, two weeks or so.
But usually about a month.

 

[Jack Rascal]

Dude! You beat me, heh. Took me 3 days. The sequel is INSANE.

P.S. Denna is a total dick.

I agree. She got on my nerves a good couple of times

God, it seems to take for ever to deliver one book... I can't wait for the sequel, but I'm dreading how long I have to wait for the third book to be published :/

 

[Rawne1980]

Depends on the book.

If it's good and keeps me grabbed then I won't put it down until i'm finished.

It took me a day and a half to finish the last Gaunts Ghost book I read.

If it doesn't keep me hooked but I want to read it through it takes me a lot longer, i'll just read it when i'm in the bath.

 

[Jakub324]

It varies massively. I finished Dawn of War: Tempest in under a day, but it took me over three months to read Tenderness of Wolves (and I didn't even finish it, made it to about 250 pages) because it was mind-blowingly boring, and not because bugger all happened, but because it explained the entire life stories of characters who weren't really important anyway, and were as boring as the book was.

 

[Fiad]

If I am in a reading mood, I am the fastest reader ever. Have finished the Harry Potter series in a week before. But if I am not in the mood I read maybe a few pages before I have to stop. All really just depends on how I am feeling at the moment. Also heavily depends on content, reading a text book would take me ages, but reading a good novel of the same length would take me considerably less time.

 

[Hagi]

I can read a 500 page novel in about half a day.

The reading test gave me 600 wpm and 91% comprehension.

 

[willsham45]

I am slow as hell at reading I achieved 150 on that test thing. Times I have read a book it has usually taken a week of near constant reading or about a month or so.

Mr girlfriend on the other hand is a lot faster with her reading, I book that took me 2 weeks was finished in an afternoon with her. She gets though a lot of books, I am always hauling books to and from the libery.
She is on something like 5 books a week sometimes more, although she does not really have to find time to read it is an hour commute to and from work that helps.

 

[Furbyz]

170 wpm and 100% of the questions right. I think my wpm was throne off a bit by the fact I kept pausing at grammar and punctuation errors in the text :/ There weren't many of them, but they're there.

But yeah, I've always wanted to take a speed reading course, and I do knock off novels in about 2 days or less.

 

[Zakarath]

I can go through a good-length (say, 500 page) book in a few hours. It's hard to say how long a book really takes me though, as I only rarely just sit down and read a book from start to finish...
...on the other hand, however, I did go through the entire Wheel of Time series in two weeks back in May.

 

[Hollock]

it usually takes a couple days, but I usually read books that are only a couple hundred pages.
But I haven't read a novel in like a month.

 

[Xman490]

WAY TOO FUCKING LONG. Every time I had assigned reading in high school it took me over a month to finish, if I even bothered to read the whole thing.

 

[ShadowyMOON]

453 wpm with 82% comprehension. And I always thought I read slowly.

As for the OP, don't fall for the self-righteous speed reading bollocks.

 

[Henkie36]

302 wpm, and 73% comprehension. I'd say I'm above average. But this makes perfect sense, because if you happend to read the post of ''In what atter does this apply to you'', all of the Escapist users should be above average.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I've read each Harry Potter book my mother insisted on buying in around eight hours, if I recall correctly.

I don't know if that's especially good or not, but I'm used to blasting through books quite quickly.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

If I enjoy the book, pretty damn fast, the other night in work I managaed to polish off A Dance with Dragons in on shift, and that book is HUUUUGE

 

[Esotera]

For an average 500-page novel, anything between two weeks to two days - it really depends how good it is. Months must get a lot more detail out of it though, I'm slightly jealous.

If it's absolutely necessary, I can read a 500 page textbook in an afternoon, although it is not a pleasant experience. But that's part of the territory for my studies.

 

[Xaio30]

I read the Swedish version of HP: Order of the Phoenix (1000+ pgs) in one day.

But yeah, I read it with the same enthusiasm as an Oblivion player on their first 40hrs-straight run. Early morning to next early morning, only pausing for food and toilet visits.I was so tired the day after. :3

I doubt I could do it with any book, though.

 

[darth.pixie]

I generally finish it in a day if it's short...two or three if it's long. I've read 700 pages in a day once though, because I was really into said book.

A Discworld novel, for instance takes some hours, sometimes a whole day but definitely not more.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

When I was 11 or so I read Stephen King's IT in less than a day, without skimming or skipping pages. Since then I haven't been able to take my time reading books. If given a full day with nothing else to do I can read at least 2-3 standard sized books or 1-1.5 high content books. Its quite annoying as I LOVE to read and hate having to buy a new book every 2-3 days if I want to keep reading new material.
If I read non-physical (iPad/e-books) materials it generally takes me a little longer because I can't stare at words on a screen and concentrate as well as I can with paper books.