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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Don Quixote, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 940
- Reading time
- ≈ 17 h
- Checkpoints
- 43
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Don Quixote?
At 940 pages, Don Quixote is a doorstopper. Expect about 17 hours of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 35 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 14 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day35 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)14 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 43 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 22
- Checkpoint 2, page 44
- Checkpoint 3, page 66
- Checkpoint 4, page 87
- Checkpoint 5, page 109
- Checkpoint 6, page 131
- Checkpoint 7, page 153
- Checkpoint 8, page 175
- Checkpoint 9, page 197
- Checkpoint 10, page 219
- Checkpoint 11, page 240
- Checkpoint 12, page 262
- Checkpoint 13, page 284
- Checkpoint 14, page 306
- Checkpoint 15, page 328
- Checkpoint 16, page 350
- Checkpoint 17, page 372
- Checkpoint 18, page 393
- Checkpoint 19, page 415
- Checkpoint 20, page 437
- Checkpoint 21, page 459
- Checkpoint 22, page 481
- Checkpoint 23, page 503
- Checkpoint 24, page 525
- Checkpoint 25, page 547
- Checkpoint 26, page 568
- Checkpoint 27, page 590
- Checkpoint 28, page 612
- Checkpoint 29, page 634
- Checkpoint 30, page 656
- Checkpoint 31, page 678
- Checkpoint 32, page 700
- Checkpoint 33, page 721
- Checkpoint 34, page 743
- Checkpoint 35, page 765
- Checkpoint 36, page 787
- Checkpoint 37, page 809
- Checkpoint 38, page 831
- Checkpoint 39, page 853
- Checkpoint 40, page 874
- Checkpoint 41, page 896
- Checkpoint 42, page 918
- Checkpoint 43, page 940
In Vread, Don Quixote is split into 43 checkpoints, one every 22 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 43 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Example: the checkpoint 1 question
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
What was the name of the galley on which Cervantes served during the Battle of Lepanto?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
Public-domain work. The answer, and the following questions, unlock in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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