Book · Fantasy and science fiction
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Stories of Your Life and Others, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 281
- Reading time
- ≈ 5 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 15
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Stories of Your Life and Others?
At 281 pages, Stories of Your Life and Others is a medium-length book. Expect about 5 hours 10 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 11 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 4 reading days. For a book of this length (250 to 399 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4.7 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day11 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)4 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 15 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 19
- Checkpoint 2, page 37
- Checkpoint 3, page 56
- Checkpoint 4, page 75
- Checkpoint 5, page 94
- Checkpoint 6, page 112
- Checkpoint 7, page 131
- Checkpoint 8, page 150
- Checkpoint 9, page 169
- Checkpoint 10, page 187
- Checkpoint 11, page 206
- Checkpoint 12, page 225
- Checkpoint 13, page 244
- Checkpoint 14, page 262
- Checkpoint 15, page 281
In Vread, Stories of Your Life and Others is split into 15 checkpoints, one every 19 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 15 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 Stories of Your Life and Others: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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