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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Divine Comedy, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 500
- Reading time
- ≈ 9 h
- Checkpoints
- 18
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read The Divine Comedy?
At 500 pages, The Divine Comedy 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: 18 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 28
- Checkpoint 2, page 56
- Checkpoint 3, page 83
- Checkpoint 4, page 111
- Checkpoint 5, page 139
- Checkpoint 6, page 167
- Checkpoint 7, page 194
- Checkpoint 8, page 222
- Checkpoint 9, page 250
- Checkpoint 10, page 278
- Checkpoint 11, page 306
- Checkpoint 12, page 333
- Checkpoint 13, page 361
- Checkpoint 14, page 389
- Checkpoint 15, page 417
- Checkpoint 16, page 444
- Checkpoint 17, page 472
- Checkpoint 18, page 500
In Vread, The Divine Comedy is split into 18 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 18 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
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
What substance covers the very bottom of Hell, where Satan is entrapped and the worst sinners are punished?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
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Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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