Book · by Carl Sagan · first published 1985
How many pages is Contact?
Contact by Carl Sagan has a median of 432 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 432 to 434 pages.
How long will Contact take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 392 | 2 | 6 h 55 min |
| Paperback | 408 | 2 | 7 h 12 min |
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Gallery Books | paperback | 384 | OL27333701M |
| 2016 | Simon & Schuster | – | 432 | OL34064225M |
| 1997 | Orbit | – | 431 | OL22447504M |
| 1997 | Doubleday Books | Hardcover | 352 | OL8690377M |
| 1997 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 434 | OL7644116M |
| 1997 | Perfection Learning | – | 434 | OL26800194M |
| 1997 | Pocket Books | – | 434 | OL20941013M |
| 1989 | Paperback | 432 | OL7662645M | |
| 1987 | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | – | 432 | OL33379138M |
| 1986 | Guild Publishing | – | 432 | OL18737720M |
| 1985 | Century | – | 432 | OL22482235M |
| 1985 | Thorndike Press | – | 664 | OL2546996M |
| 1985 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 432 | OL23258017M |
More by Carl Sagan
All 4 books by Carl Sagan with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Contact?
- About 432 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 352 to 664 pages.
- How long does it take to read Contact?
- About 7 h 37 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
- How many words is Contact?
- 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)).