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How many pages is All the Weyrs of Pern?

All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey has a median of 478 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 463 to 486 pages.

Median pages
478
7 editions counted
Range
404–496
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
131k
at 275 words per page

How long will All the Weyrs of Pern take you?

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Reading time
8 h 26 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400450500200020101991: 493 pages1991: 404 pages1992: 478 pages1992: 496 pages1992: 478 pages2012: 480 pages2017: 448 pagesmedian 478
400450500200020101991: 493 pages1991: 404 pages1992: 478 pages1992: 496 pages1992: 478 pages2012: 480 pages2017: 448 pagesmedian 478
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 24 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2017Ballantine Books Inc.Paperback448OL9478666M
2012Transworld Publishers Limited–480OL33471957M
1992CorgiPaperback478OL60615672M
1992Bantam–496OL18922242M
1992Corgi–478OL18922249M
1991Bantam–493OL18922254M
1991Ballantine Books–404OL1578299M

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Questions

How many pages is All the Weyrs of Pern?
About 478 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 404 to 496 pages.
How long does it take to read All the Weyrs of Pern?
About 8 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is All the Weyrs of Pern?
Roughly 131,000 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)).