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How many pages is Airframe?

Airframe by Michael Crichton has a median of 431 pages across 17 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 352 to 448 pages.

Median pages
431
17 editions counted
Range
351–544
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
119k
at 275 words per page

How long will Airframe take you?

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Reading time
7 h 36 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4005002000200520101996: 351 pages1996: 473 pages1996: 352 pages1996: 352 pages1996: 351 pages1996: 479 pages1997: 431 pages1997: 431 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1999: 431 pages2000: 544 pages2001: 432 pages2008: 448 pages2011: 448 pagesmedian 431
4005002000200520101996: 351 pages1996: 473 pages1996: 352 pages1996: 352 pages1996: 351 pages1996: 479 pages1997: 431 pages1997: 431 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1997: 352 pages1999: 431 pages2000: 544 pages2001: 432 pages2008: 448 pages2011: 448 pagesmedian 431
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover35256 h 12 min
Mass market43137 h 36 min

Editions counted

The 17 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 73 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Random House Publishing Group–448OL33973870M
2008Ballantine BooksMass Market Paperback448OL10686369M
2001Penguin Random House–432OL28962435M
2000CharnwoodHardcover544OL9754230M
1999Tandem Library–431OL7587297M
1997Ballantine Booksmass market paperback431OL24199644M
1997ArrowMass Market Paperback431OL7319429M
1997BCAHardcover352OL39479440M

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Questions

How many pages is Airframe?
About 431 pages: that is the median of 17 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 351 to 544 pages.
How long does it take to read Airframe?
About 7 h 36 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Airframe?
Roughly 119,000 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)).