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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Magic Mountain, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,195
- Reading time
- ≈ 21 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 33
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Magic Mountain?
At 1,195 pages, The Magic Mountain is a doorstopper. Expect about 21 hours 40 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 44 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 17 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 day44 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)17 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 33 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 72
- Checkpoint 3, page 109
- Checkpoint 4, page 145
- Checkpoint 5, page 181
- Checkpoint 6, page 217
- Checkpoint 7, page 253
- Checkpoint 8, page 290
- Checkpoint 9, page 326
- Checkpoint 10, page 362
- Checkpoint 11, page 398
- Checkpoint 12, page 435
- Checkpoint 13, page 471
- Checkpoint 14, page 507
- Checkpoint 15, page 543
- Checkpoint 16, page 579
- Checkpoint 17, page 616
- Checkpoint 18, page 652
- Checkpoint 19, page 688
- Checkpoint 20, page 724
- Checkpoint 21, page 760
- Checkpoint 22, page 797
- Checkpoint 23, page 833
- Checkpoint 24, page 869
- Checkpoint 25, page 905
- Checkpoint 26, page 942
- Checkpoint 27, page 978
- Checkpoint 28, page 1014
- Checkpoint 29, page 1050
- Checkpoint 30, page 1086
- Checkpoint 31, page 1123
- Checkpoint 32, page 1159
- Checkpoint 33, page 1195
In Vread, The Magic Mountain is split into 33 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 33 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 Magic Mountain: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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