Book · Non-fiction, memoir and self-help
Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Einstein, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 600
- Reading time
- ≈ 10 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 26
- Genre
- Non-fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Einstein?
At 600 pages, Einstein is a long book. Expect about 10 hours 50 minutes 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 22 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 9 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 day22 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)9 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 26 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 23
- Checkpoint 2, page 46
- Checkpoint 3, page 69
- Checkpoint 4, page 92
- Checkpoint 5, page 115
- Checkpoint 6, page 138
- Checkpoint 7, page 162
- Checkpoint 8, page 185
- Checkpoint 9, page 208
- Checkpoint 10, page 231
- Checkpoint 11, page 254
- Checkpoint 12, page 277
- Checkpoint 13, page 300
- Checkpoint 14, page 323
- Checkpoint 15, page 346
- Checkpoint 16, page 369
- Checkpoint 17, page 392
- Checkpoint 18, page 415
- Checkpoint 19, page 438
- Checkpoint 20, page 462
- Checkpoint 21, page 485
- Checkpoint 22, page 508
- Checkpoint 23, page 531
- Checkpoint 24, page 554
- Checkpoint 25, page 577
- Checkpoint 26, page 600
In Vread, Einstein is split into 26 checkpoints, one every 23 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 26 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.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from Einstein: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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