Book · by Michael Crichton
How many pages is A Case of Need?
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton has a median of 319 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 309 to 392 pages.
How long will A Case of Need 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 | 309 | 6 | 5 h 27 min |
| Mass market | 416 | 3 | 7 h 20 min |
Editions counted
The 14 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 52 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 416 | OL29171517M |
| 2002 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | OL24955998M |
| 1996 | Century | – | 319 | OL18427610M |
| 1995 | Arrow | Paperback | 432 | OL28426643M |
| 1993 | Dutton Books | Hardcover | 320 | OL7770983M |
| 1993 | Dutton | Hardcover | 319 | OL43111604M |
| 1990 | Signet | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | OL22932138M |
| 1969 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 319 | OL39479402M |
| 1968 | World Pub. Co. | – | 309 | OL20938726M |
| 1968 | World Publishing Company | Hardcover | 309 | OL35663537M |
| 1968 | World Pub. Co. | Hardcover | 243 | OL14428095M |
| 1968 | Heinemann | – | 309 | OL16693624M |
| 1968 | World Publishing Company | Hardcover | 243 | OL35663540M |
| 1968 | World Pub. Co. | Hardcover | 309 | OL5615562M |
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Questions
- How many pages is A Case of Need?
- About 319 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 243 to 432 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Case of Need?
- About 5 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is A Case of Need?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).