Book · by Arthur C. Clarke · first published 1994
How many pages is 2001?
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke has a median of 228 pages across 26 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 221 to 256 pages.
How long will 2001 take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 221 | 9 | 3 h 54 min |
| Paperback | 242 | 4 | 4 h 16 min |
Editions counted
The 26 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 117 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Penguin Classics | – | 256 | OL26787381M |
| 2001 | Orbit | – | 288 | OL26787678M |
| 2000 | Roc | – | 320 | OL7576213M |
| 1999 | New American Library | Hardcover | 236 | OL16957660M |
| 1999 | NAL Hardcover | – | 256 | OL7574187M |
| 1994 | G K Hall & Co | Hardcover | 325 | OL8068560M |
| 1994 | G.K. Hall | – | 325 | OL1104799M |
| 1993 | Roc Trade | Paperback | 256 | OL7575930M |
| 1991 | ROC | – | 221 | OL24857274M |
| 1991 | Legend | – | 256 | OL21664935M |
| 1988 | Legend paperbacks | Paperback | 229 | OL22321714M |
| 1983 | Inner Circle | – | 229 | OL17575081M |
| 1982 | New American | – | 226 | OL24199163M |
| 1982 | New American | – | 226 | OL18674505M |
| 1974 | Hutchinson | – | 224 | OL14901309M |
| 1969 | World Pub. Co. | – | 221 | OL22403807M |
| 1968 | New American Library | Hardcover | 221 | OL5620784M |
| 1968 | New American Library | Hardcover | 221 | OL26854596M |
| 1968 | Hutchinson | Hardcover | 224 | OL5260560M |
| 1968 | Arrow Books | – | 256 | OL20978202M |
| 1968 | Hutchinson | Hardcover | 224 | OL19675372M |
| 1968 | New American Library | Hardcover | 221 | OL25626371M |
| 1968 | Signet | Paperback | 221 | OL26627441M |
| 1968 | New American Library | Hardcover | 221 | OL23251330M |
| 1968 | Arrow Books | Paperback | 256 | OL9267684M |
| 1968 | New American Library | Hardcover | 221 | OL27089642M |
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Questions
- How many pages is 2001?
- About 228 pages: that is the median of 26 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 221 to 325 pages.
- How long does it take to read 2001?
- About 4 h 01 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is 2001?
- Roughly 63,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).