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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Canterbury Tales, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 500
- Reading time
- ≈ 9 h
- Checkpoints
- 28
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Canterbury Tales?
At 500 pages, The Canterbury Tales is a long book. Expect about 9 hours 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 19 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day19 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 28 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 18
- Checkpoint 2, page 36
- Checkpoint 3, page 54
- Checkpoint 4, page 71
- Checkpoint 5, page 89
- Checkpoint 6, page 107
- Checkpoint 7, page 125
- Checkpoint 8, page 143
- Checkpoint 9, page 161
- Checkpoint 10, page 179
- Checkpoint 11, page 196
- Checkpoint 12, page 214
- Checkpoint 13, page 232
- Checkpoint 14, page 250
- Checkpoint 15, page 268
- Checkpoint 16, page 286
- Checkpoint 17, page 304
- Checkpoint 18, page 321
- Checkpoint 19, page 339
- Checkpoint 20, page 357
- Checkpoint 21, page 375
- Checkpoint 22, page 393
- Checkpoint 23, page 411
- Checkpoint 24, page 429
- Checkpoint 25, page 446
- Checkpoint 26, page 464
- Checkpoint 27, page 482
- Checkpoint 28, page 500
In Vread, The Canterbury Tales is split into 28 checkpoints, one every 18 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 28 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 The Canterbury Tales: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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