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Book · by Philip K. Dick · first published 1999

How many pages is A Scanner Darkly?

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick has a median of 254 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 223 to 280 pages.

Median pages
254
12 editions counted
Range
189–291
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
70k
at 275 words per page

How long will A Scanner Darkly take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
4 h 29 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

20025030019801990200020101977: 220 pages1977: 291 pages1977: 220 pages1978: 254 pages1991: 278 pages1996: 254 pages2006: 189 pages2006: 278 pages2006: 224 pages2011: 288 pages2011: 289 pages2012: 224 pagesmedian 254
200250300198020001977: 220 pages1977: 291 pages1977: 220 pages1978: 254 pages1991: 278 pages1996: 254 pages2006: 189 pages2006: 278 pages2006: 224 pages2011: 288 pages2011: 289 pages2012: 224 pagesmedian 254
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 28 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2012Orion Publishing Group, Limited–224OL29066688M
2011Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–288OL29598565M
2011Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt–289OL24840090M
2006Pantheon Books–189OL3427623M
2006VintagePaperback278OL24787036M
2006GollanczPaperback224OL7878894M
1996Voyager–254OL19105283M
1991Vintage Books–278OL1566176M

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Questions

How many pages is A Scanner Darkly?
About 254 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 189 to 291 pages.
How long does it take to read A Scanner Darkly?
About 4 h 29 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is A Scanner Darkly?
Roughly 70,000 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)).