Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 2001
How many pages is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams has a median of 306 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 247 to 306 pages.
How long will Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 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 | 247 | 3 | 4 h 21 min |
| Mass market | 306 | 3 | 5 h 24 min |
Editions counted
The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 36 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 306 | OL7664100M |
| 1991 | Rebound by Sagebrush | School & Library Binding | 306 | OL9320755M |
| 1988 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 306 | OL26339588M |
| 1988 | Pan Books | – | 247 | OL15545657M |
| 1988 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 306 | OL17575324M |
| 1987 | Heinemann | – | 247 | OL21310132M |
| 1987 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 247 | OL2380852M |
| 1987 | Heinemann | Hardcover | 247 | OL17415201M |
| 1987 | Pocket Books | – | 310 | OL18699008M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
- About 306 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 247 to 310 pages.
- How long does it take to read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
- About 5 h 24 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
- How many words is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
- Roughly 84,000 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).