How long does it take to read Captains Courageous?

About 2 h 41 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.

How many words is Captains Courageous?

Roughly 42,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Book · by Rudyard Kipling · first published 2006

How many pages is Captains Courageous?

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling has a median of 152 pages across 355 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 142 to 194 pages.

Median pages

152

355 editions counted

Range

70–330

shortest to longest edition

Reading time

2.7h

at 260 wpm (fiction average)

Words (est.)

42k

at 275 words per page

How long will Captains Courageous 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 speed 260 wpm

Page density

Reading time

2 h 41 min

At 30 min a day

6 days

At 1 hour a day

3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 55 editions without a publication year not plotted.

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
Paperback	160	5	2 h 49 min
Mass market	170	2	2 h 59 min

Editions counted

The 355 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 83 more editions were 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 991 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

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2017	Clean Bright Classics	–	164	OL54879326M
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2017	Malaeska Classics	–	152	OL55808261M
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2016	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	–	142	OL55791053M
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2016	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.	–	160	OL29330015M
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2014	Penguin Publishing Group	–	224	OL34005320M
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2011	Kennebec Large Print	–	233	OL25016372M
2011	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	–	122	OL54563241M
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2009	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	–	126	OL54073373M
2008	Hesperus Press	Paperback	128	OL11907578M
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2008	House of Stratus, Incorporated	–	176	OL28737531M
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2004	Signet Classics	–	191	OL3302297M
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1958	Macmillan	–	241	OL13689555M
1954	Macmillan	–	241	OL20821749M
1953	Globe Book Co.	–	235	OL6131979M
1953	Scott, Foresman and Co.	–	263	OL6149559M
1946	Macmillan Company of Canada Limited	–	282	OL38628583M
1946	Bantam Books	–	184	OL13568132M
1946	Doubleday & Company, Inc.	–	193	OL43818733M
1941	Macmillan	–	282	OL22438749M
1939	Macmillan	–	282	OL20429455M
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1936	Macmillan	–	282	OL20182979M
1935	Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc.	–	322	OL38628577M
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1932	Macmillan	–	282	OL20978882M
1930	Macmillan	–	282	OL31799738M
1929	–	–	322	OL17878565M
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1920	Macmillan	–	282	OL20429466M
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1899	Century Co.	–	323	OL38628851M
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1897	Doubleday & Co.	–	322	OL33119987M
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1897	Macmillan	–	245	OL24235458M
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1897	Doubleday & Co.	–	322	OL26883045M
1897	Doubleday	–	193	OL22350745M
1897	Macmillan	–	245	OL23138405M
1897	Doubleday, Doran	–	322	OL24174537M

More by Rudyard Kipling

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Questions

How many pages is Captains Courageous?: About 152 pages: that is the median of 355 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 70 to 330 pages.
How long does it take to read Captains Courageous?: About 2 h 41 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Captains Courageous?: Roughly 42,000 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)).