Book · Historical fiction
World Without End
by Ken Follett
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start World Without End, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,024
- Reading time
- ≈ 18 h 30 min
- Checkpoints
- 42
- Genre
- Historical
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read World Without End?
At 1,024 pages, World Without End is a doorstopper. Expect about 18 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 38 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 day38 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: 42 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 24
- Checkpoint 2, page 49
- Checkpoint 3, page 73
- Checkpoint 4, page 98
- Checkpoint 5, page 122
- Checkpoint 6, page 146
- Checkpoint 7, page 171
- Checkpoint 8, page 195
- Checkpoint 9, page 219
- Checkpoint 10, page 244
- Checkpoint 11, page 268
- Checkpoint 12, page 293
- Checkpoint 13, page 317
- Checkpoint 14, page 341
- Checkpoint 15, page 366
- Checkpoint 16, page 390
- Checkpoint 17, page 414
- Checkpoint 18, page 439
- Checkpoint 19, page 463
- Checkpoint 20, page 488
- Checkpoint 21, page 512
- Checkpoint 22, page 536
- Checkpoint 23, page 561
- Checkpoint 24, page 585
- Checkpoint 25, page 610
- Checkpoint 26, page 634
- Checkpoint 27, page 658
- Checkpoint 28, page 683
- Checkpoint 29, page 707
- Checkpoint 30, page 731
- Checkpoint 31, page 756
- Checkpoint 32, page 780
- Checkpoint 33, page 805
- Checkpoint 34, page 829
- Checkpoint 35, page 853
- Checkpoint 36, page 878
- Checkpoint 37, page 902
- Checkpoint 38, page 926
- Checkpoint 39, page 951
- Checkpoint 40, page 975
- Checkpoint 41, page 1000
- Checkpoint 42, page 1024
In Vread, World Without End is split into 42 checkpoints, one every 24 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 42 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 World Without End: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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