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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Notes from Underground, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 140
- Reading time
- ≈ 2 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 5
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read Notes from Underground?
At 140 pages, Notes from Underground is a short book. Expect about 2 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 6 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 2 reading days. For a book of this length (under 250 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day6 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)2 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 5 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 28
- Checkpoint 2, page 56
- Checkpoint 3, page 84
- Checkpoint 4, page 112
- Checkpoint 5, page 140
In Vread, Notes from Underground is split into 5 checkpoints, one every 28 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 5 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
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
What ailment does the narrator describe as causing a nineteenth-century man to moan with "nasty, disgustingly malignant" trills and flourishes?
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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