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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Idiot, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 630
- Reading time
- ≈ 11 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 25
- Genre
- Classic
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How long does it take to read The Idiot?
At 630 pages, The Idiot is a long book. Expect about 11 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 23 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 9 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 day23 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)9 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 25 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 25
- Checkpoint 2, page 50
- Checkpoint 3, page 76
- Checkpoint 4, page 101
- Checkpoint 5, page 126
- Checkpoint 6, page 151
- Checkpoint 7, page 176
- Checkpoint 8, page 202
- Checkpoint 9, page 227
- Checkpoint 10, page 252
- Checkpoint 11, page 277
- Checkpoint 12, page 302
- Checkpoint 13, page 328
- Checkpoint 14, page 353
- Checkpoint 15, page 378
- Checkpoint 16, page 403
- Checkpoint 17, page 428
- Checkpoint 18, page 454
- Checkpoint 19, page 479
- Checkpoint 20, page 504
- Checkpoint 21, page 529
- Checkpoint 22, page 554
- Checkpoint 23, page 580
- Checkpoint 24, page 605
- Checkpoint 25, page 630
In Vread, The Idiot is split into 25 checkpoints, one every 25 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.
Example: the checkpoint 1 question
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
What does the door-keeper ask Prince Muishkin to leave behind in the ante-chamber when he arrives at General Epanchin's home?
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
Public-domain work. The answer, and the following questions, unlock in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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