
Book · Non-fiction, memoir and self-help
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
by Daniel H. Pink
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 224
- Reading time
- ≈ 4 h
- Checkpoints
- 7
- Genre
- Non-fiction
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others?
At 224 pages, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others is a medium-length book. Expect about 4 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 9 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 4 reading days. For a book of this length (under 250 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day9 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)4 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 7 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 32
- Checkpoint 2, page 64
- Checkpoint 3, page 96
- Checkpoint 4, page 128
- Checkpoint 5, page 160
- Checkpoint 6, page 192
- Checkpoint 7, page 224
In Vread, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others is split into 7 checkpoints, one every 32 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 7 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 To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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