Book · by Isaac Asimov
How many pages is Foundation?
Foundation by Isaac Asimov has a median of 227 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 200 to 250 pages.
How long will Foundation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 256 | 3 | 4 h 31 min |
| Mass market | 285 | 3 | 5 h 01 min |
Editions counted
The 27 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 99 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Del Rey | paperback | 272 | OL28346544M |
| 2018 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 240 | OL34489026M |
| 2016 | HARPER COLLINS | – | 240 | OL51998636M |
| 2004 | Bantam Books | – | 244 | OL3693746M |
| 2000 | DENOEL | paperback | 256 | OL27970697M |
| 1994 | HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy | – | 234 | OL19124639M |
| 1991 | Spectra | Mass Market Paperback | 320 | OL7825249M |
| 1989 | Ballantine Books | – | 285 | OL1187067M |
| 1986 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 285 | OL9481801M |
| 1983 | Granada | – | 234 | OL18193043M |
| 1979 | J. Curley | – | 435 | OL4407699M |
| 1972 | Avon | – | 200 | OL47079545M |
| 1972 | Avon Books | – | 200 | OL51566464M |
| 1969 | Avon | – | 200 | OL47314655M |
| 1969 | Avon Books | – | 200 | OL51565392M |
| 1967 | Avon Books | – | 202 | OL47079539M |
| 1966 | Avon | – | 200 | OL47079543M |
| 1966 | Avon | – | 200 | OL47079544M |
| 1966 | Avon | – | 200 | OL7431566M |
| 1966 | Avon | Mass Market Paperback | 200 | OL7431286M |
| 1966 | Avon | – | 200 | OL7431780M |
| 1962 | Panther | – | 189 | OL51565403M |
| 1960 | Panther | Paperback | 189 | OL20266239M |
| 1960 | Hamilton & Co | – | 189 | OL19575322M |
| 1953 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | – | 246 | OL18754515M |
| 1951 | Gnome Press | – | 255 | OL6095440M |
| 1951 | Doubleday | – | 227 | OL16212521M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Foundation?
- About 227 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 189 to 435 pages.
- How long does it take to read Foundation?
- About 4 h at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is Foundation?
- Roughly 62,000 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).