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How many pages is By the Shores of Silver Lake?

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder has a median of 290 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 290 to 304 pages.

Median pages
290
20 editions counted
Range
220–357
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
80k
at 275 words per page
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How long will By the Shores of Silver Lake 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
5 h 07 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

200250300350194019601980200020201939: 308 pages1939: 310 pages1939: 260 pages1953: 226 pages1953: 290 pages1953: 290 pages1953: 290 pages1967: 290 pages1967: 290 pages1967: 220 pages1971: 339 pages1971: 290 pages1980: 290 pages1981: 290 pages1990: 285 pages2003: 304 pages2004: 304 pages2007: 357 pages2016: 304 pages2021: 304 pagesmedian 290
200250300350195020001939: 308 pages1939: 310 pages1939: 260 pages1953: 226 pages1953: 290 pages1953: 290 pages1953: 290 pages1967: 290 pages1967: 290 pages1967: 220 pages1971: 339 pages1971: 290 pages1980: 290 pages1981: 290 pages1990: 285 pages2003: 304 pages2004: 304 pages2007: 357 pages2016: 304 pages2021: 304 pagesmedian 290
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
Hardcover29025 h 07 min
Paperback33025 h 50 min

Editions counted

The 20 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 62 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Egmont Books, Limited–304OL33939976M
2016HarperCollins Publishers Limited–304OL29737829M
2007HarperTrophyPaperback357OL9238236M
2004HarperTrophy–304OL7279195M
2003AvonPaperback304OL9232440M
1990Cornerstone Books–285OL2227208M
1981Harper & RowHardcover290OL26529209M
1980Scholastic–290OL21553384M

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Questions

How many pages is By the Shores of Silver Lake?
About 290 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 220 to 357 pages.
How long does it take to read By the Shores of Silver Lake?
About 5 h 07 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is By the Shores of Silver Lake?
Roughly 80,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).