Book · by Carl Sagan · first published 1980
How many pages is Cosmos?
Cosmos by Carl Sagan has a median of 365 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 304 to 396 pages.
How long will Cosmos take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 74 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 244 | OL56640413M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 208 | OL55794989M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 208 | OL56137627M |
| 2015 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 210 | OL56480593M |
| 2002 | Random House | – | 365 | OL3568862M |
| 1995 | Abacus | – | 413 | OL22114495M |
| 1985 | Ballantine Books | – | 324 | OL24939210M |
| 1984 | Macdonald | – | 487 | OL22450595M |
| 1983 | Futura | – | 418 | OL59019323M |
| 1983 | Futura | – | 413 | OL22051991M |
| 1983 | Random House | – | 384 | OL7462149M |
| 1981 | Macdonald Futura | – | 365 | OL22647045M |
| 1980 | Random House | – | 365 | OL24740450M |
| 1980 | Ballantine Books | – | 354 | OL59020370M |
| 1980 | Random House | – | 365 | OL22596968M |
| 1980 | – | – | 390 | OL58641125M |
More by Carl Sagan
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Questions
- How many pages is Cosmos?
- About 365 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 208 to 487 pages.
- How long does it take to read Cosmos?
- About 7 h 02 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 15 days.
- How many words is Cosmos?
- Roughly 100,000 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)).