Book · Fantasy and science fiction
The Hero of Ages
by Brandon Sanderson
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Hero of Ages, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 748
- Reading time
- ≈ 13 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 25
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Hero of Ages?
At 748 pages, The Hero of Ages is a doorstopper. Expect about 13 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 28 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 11 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 day28 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)11 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 25 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 30
- Checkpoint 2, page 60
- Checkpoint 3, page 90
- Checkpoint 4, page 120
- Checkpoint 5, page 150
- Checkpoint 6, page 180
- Checkpoint 7, page 209
- Checkpoint 8, page 239
- Checkpoint 9, page 269
- Checkpoint 10, page 299
- Checkpoint 11, page 329
- Checkpoint 12, page 359
- Checkpoint 13, page 389
- Checkpoint 14, page 419
- Checkpoint 15, page 449
- Checkpoint 16, page 479
- Checkpoint 17, page 509
- Checkpoint 18, page 539
- Checkpoint 19, page 568
- Checkpoint 20, page 598
- Checkpoint 21, page 628
- Checkpoint 22, page 658
- Checkpoint 23, page 688
- Checkpoint 24, page 718
- Checkpoint 25, page 748
In Vread, The Hero of Ages is split into 25 checkpoints, one every 30 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 25 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 Hero of Ages: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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