Book · Fantasy and science fiction
The Dragonbone Chair
by Tad Williams
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Dragonbone Chair, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,071
- Reading time
- ≈ 19 h 20 min
- Checkpoints
- 30
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Dragonbone Chair?
At 1,071 pages, The Dragonbone Chair is a doorstopper. Expect about 19 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 39 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 15 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 day39 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)15 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 30 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 71
- Checkpoint 3, page 107
- Checkpoint 4, page 143
- Checkpoint 5, page 179
- Checkpoint 6, page 214
- Checkpoint 7, page 250
- Checkpoint 8, page 286
- Checkpoint 9, page 321
- Checkpoint 10, page 357
- Checkpoint 11, page 393
- Checkpoint 12, page 428
- Checkpoint 13, page 464
- Checkpoint 14, page 500
- Checkpoint 15, page 536
- Checkpoint 16, page 571
- Checkpoint 17, page 607
- Checkpoint 18, page 643
- Checkpoint 19, page 678
- Checkpoint 20, page 714
- Checkpoint 21, page 750
- Checkpoint 22, page 785
- Checkpoint 23, page 821
- Checkpoint 24, page 857
- Checkpoint 25, page 893
- Checkpoint 26, page 928
- Checkpoint 27, page 964
- Checkpoint 28, page 1000
- Checkpoint 29, page 1035
- Checkpoint 30, page 1071
In Vread, The Dragonbone Chair is split into 30 checkpoints, one every 36 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 30 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 Dragonbone Chair: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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