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Infinite jest
by David Foster Wallace
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Infinite jest, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,079
- Reading time
- ≈ 19 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 55
- Genre
- Fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Infinite jest?
At 1,079 pages, Infinite jest is a doorstopper. Expect about 19 hours 30 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 40 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 15 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 day40 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)15 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 55 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 20
- Checkpoint 2, page 39
- Checkpoint 3, page 59
- Checkpoint 4, page 78
- Checkpoint 5, page 98
- Checkpoint 6, page 118
- Checkpoint 7, page 137
- Checkpoint 8, page 157
- Checkpoint 9, page 177
- Checkpoint 10, page 196
- Checkpoint 11, page 216
- Checkpoint 12, page 235
- Checkpoint 13, page 255
- Checkpoint 14, page 275
- Checkpoint 15, page 294
- Checkpoint 16, page 314
- Checkpoint 17, page 334
- Checkpoint 18, page 353
- Checkpoint 19, page 373
- Checkpoint 20, page 392
- Checkpoint 21, page 412
- Checkpoint 22, page 432
- Checkpoint 23, page 451
- Checkpoint 24, page 471
- Checkpoint 25, page 490
- Checkpoint 26, page 510
- Checkpoint 27, page 530
- Checkpoint 28, page 549
- Checkpoint 29, page 569
- Checkpoint 30, page 589
- Checkpoint 31, page 608
- Checkpoint 32, page 628
- Checkpoint 33, page 647
- Checkpoint 34, page 667
- Checkpoint 35, page 687
- Checkpoint 36, page 706
- Checkpoint 37, page 726
- Checkpoint 38, page 745
- Checkpoint 39, page 765
- Checkpoint 40, page 785
- Checkpoint 41, page 804
- Checkpoint 42, page 824
- Checkpoint 43, page 844
- Checkpoint 44, page 863
- Checkpoint 45, page 883
- Checkpoint 46, page 902
- Checkpoint 47, page 922
- Checkpoint 48, page 942
- Checkpoint 49, page 961
- Checkpoint 50, page 981
- Checkpoint 51, page 1001
- Checkpoint 52, page 1020
- Checkpoint 53, page 1040
- Checkpoint 54, page 1059
- Checkpoint 55, page 1079
In Vread, Infinite jest is split into 55 checkpoints, one every 20 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 55 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 Infinite jest: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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