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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Moby Dick, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 624
- Reading time
- ≈ 11 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 26
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Moby Dick?
At 624 pages, Moby Dick is a long book. Expect about 11 hours 20 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 23 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 day23 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 24
- Checkpoint 2, page 48
- Checkpoint 3, page 72
- Checkpoint 4, page 96
- Checkpoint 5, page 120
- Checkpoint 6, page 144
- Checkpoint 7, page 168
- Checkpoint 8, page 192
- Checkpoint 9, page 216
- Checkpoint 10, page 240
- Checkpoint 11, page 264
- Checkpoint 12, page 288
- Checkpoint 13, page 312
- Checkpoint 14, page 336
- Checkpoint 15, page 360
- Checkpoint 16, page 384
- Checkpoint 17, page 408
- Checkpoint 18, page 432
- Checkpoint 19, page 456
- Checkpoint 20, page 480
- Checkpoint 21, page 504
- Checkpoint 22, page 528
- Checkpoint 23, page 552
- Checkpoint 24, page 576
- Checkpoint 25, page 600
- Checkpoint 26, page 624
In Vread, Moby Dick is split into 26 checkpoints, one every 24 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.
Example: the checkpoint 1 question
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
To whom did Herman Melville write that he was content to have his "paper allegories ill comprehended"?
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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