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How many pages is Dragonsinger?

Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey has a median of 277 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 258 to 284 pages.

Median pages
277
12 editions counted
Range
240–347
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
76k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Dragonsinger 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 time
4 h 53 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

25030035019801990200020101977: 264 pages1977: 264 pages1978: 240 pages1978: 283 pages1986: 240 pages1999: 347 pages2003: 288 pages2003: 277 pages2008: 277 pages2012: 288 pages2015: 277 pagesmedian 277
250300350198020001977: 264 pages1977: 264 pages1978: 240 pages1978: 283 pages1986: 240 pages1999: 347 pages2003: 288 pages2003: 277 pages2008: 277 pages2012: 288 pages2015: 277 pagesmedian 277
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 30 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2015Saga PressPaperback277OL26770060M
2012Transworld Publishers Limited–288OL33465223M
2008Simon Pulse–277OL25381810M
2003AladdinPaperback288OL7730403M
2003Simon Pulse–277OL3575356M
1999G.K. Hall–347OL387756M
1986Bantam Books–240OL24205605M
1978Bantam Books–240OL26329347M

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Questions

How many pages is Dragonsinger?
About 277 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 240 to 347 pages.
How long does it take to read Dragonsinger?
About 4 h 53 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is Dragonsinger?
Roughly 76,000 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).