Book · by Walter Isaacson
How many pages is Einstein?
Einstein by Walter Isaacson has a median of 713 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 682 to 890 pages.
How long will Einstein 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 | 810 | 2 | 15 h 37 min |
| Paperback | 844 | 2 | 16 h 15 min |
Editions counted
The 6 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 45 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Large Print Press | Paperback | 984 | OL9897927M |
| 2008 | Simon & Schuster | Paperback | 704 | OL9837560M |
| 2007 | Simon & Schuster | – | 722 | OL58890029M |
| 2007 | Simon & Schuster | Hardcover | 675 | OL7948080M |
| 2007 | Simon & Schuster | – | 675 | OL35350555M |
| 2007 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 946 | OL8137869M |
More by Walter Isaacson
All 5 books by Walter Isaacson with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Einstein?
- About 713 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 675 to 984 pages.
- How long does it take to read Einstein?
- About 13 h 44 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 28 days.
- How many words is Einstein?
- Roughly 196,000 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)).