Book · by Steven D. Levitt · first published 2005
How many pages is Freakonomics?
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt has a median of 320 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 256 to 336 pages.
How long will Freakonomics 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 | 256 | 5 | 4 h 56 min |
| Paperback | 346 | 4 | 6 h 40 min |
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 63 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 352 | OL29872820M |
| 2009 | Harper Perennial | – | 315 | OL24015863M |
| 2007 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 336 | OL7289308M |
| 2007 | W F Howes Ltd | Hardcover | 321 | OL32534476M |
| 2006 | HarperLargePrint | Paperback | 356 | OL9238482M |
| 2006 | HarperCollins | Paperback | 476 | OL9244193M |
| 2006 | HarperTorch | – | 320 | OL33127633M |
| 2006 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 336 | OL7358569M |
| 2006 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 256 | OL9243137M |
| 2005 | William Morrow & Co | Hardcover | 256 | OL7798452M |
| 2005 | William Morrow | Hardcover | 242 | OL7280507M |
| 2005 | William Morrow | – | 242 | OL23273810M |
| 2005 | William Morrow | Paperback | 242 | OL7916999M |
Questions
- How many pages is Freakonomics?
- About 320 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 242 to 476 pages.
- How long does it take to read Freakonomics?
- About 6 h 10 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is Freakonomics?
- Roughly 88,000 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)).