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How many pages is Dragonflight?

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey has a median of 309 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 303 to 320 pages.

Median pages
309
19 editions counted
Range
144–352
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
85k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Dragonriders of Pern
Series in order

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Reading time
5 h 27 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.

2003001980200020201968: 337 pages1968: 309 pages1969: 309 pages1969: 310 pages1970: 347 pages1971: 308 pages1971: 309 pages1973: 253 pages1978: 254 pages1978: 303 pages1979: 303 pages1985: 303 pages1989: 303 pages1991: 320 pages1993: 144 pages1997: 303 pages2002: 320 pages2005: 320 pages2025: 352 pagesmedian 309
2003001980200020201968: 337 pages1968: 309 pages1969: 309 pages1969: 310 pages1970: 347 pages1971: 308 pages1971: 309 pages1973: 253 pages1978: 254 pages1978: 303 pages1979: 303 pages1985: 303 pages1989: 303 pages1991: 320 pages1993: 144 pages1997: 303 pages2002: 320 pages2005: 320 pages2025: 352 pagesmedian 309
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 19 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 78 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2025Penguin Books, Limited–352OL57548194M
2005Del ReyPaperback320OL9518348M
2002Del ReyMass Market Paperback320OL9865522M
1997Del ReyPaperback303OL9576152M
1993Eclipse–144OL18516866M
1991Ballantine Books Inc.Paperback320OL9437779M
1989Ballantine Books–303OL3667543M
1985Professional Services Center for the Visually Handicapped [W–303OL26336233M

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Questions

How many pages is Dragonflight?
About 309 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 144 to 352 pages.
How long does it take to read Dragonflight?
About 5 h 27 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Dragonflight?
Roughly 85,000 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).