Reading Assignment Time Calculator

Estimate time at your entered content rate for reading pages.

How to use Reading Assignment Time Calculator

1. Enter Pages, Pages per Hour in the labelled units. 2. Rate must be positive and means pages per hour. The rate stays constant for the estimate. Pages vary in length and difficulty. Reading time does not establish comprehension, and breaks, notes or exercises are excluded unless included in the input rate. 3. Select Calculate or press Enter to see the result. 4. Select Select Copy result to copy the answer, or Reset to clear the form.

Why use this tool?

Use this tool to estimate time at your entered content rate for reading pages. Use a rate measured on comparable material and decide whether notes and exercises are included.

How the calculation works

Duration = pages ÷ pages per hour; convert to seconds for display. Rate must be positive and means pages per hour. The rate stays constant for the estimate. Pages vary in length and difficulty. Reading time does not establish comprehension, and breaks, notes or exercises are excluded unless included in the input rate. A plain duration is minutes; labelled h, min, sec and d are also accepted. One duration day is 24 hours. Results round to the nearest second, and a positive duration below half a second is labelled Less than 1 sec. Entered decimal arithmetic is applied before display rounding. Numeric inputs/results and durations in seconds are bounded by magnitude 9,007,199,254,740,991. Time-unit definitions: https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-chapter-5-units-outside-si

Example

Reading Assignment example: 120 pages ÷ an assumed 40 pages/hour = 3 h 0 min.

Practical tip

Use a rate measured on comparable material and decide whether notes and exercises are included.