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How many pages is I, Robot?

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov has a median of 218 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 192 to 247 pages.

Median pages
218
27 editions counted
Range
104–304
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
60k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
3 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1002003001960198020001950: 218 pages1950: 218 pages1950: 192 pages1950: 218 pages1950: 253 pages1956: 192 pages1963: 218 pages1963: 218 pages1970: 192 pages1970: 218 pages1974: 224 pages1974: 206 pages1977: 192 pages1983: 192 pages1988: 192 pages1991: 272 pages1996: 249 pages1996: 249 pages1999: 304 pages2000: 104 pages2004: 224 pages2004: 272 pages2004: 272 pages2004: 224 pages2008: 224 pages2008: 112 pages2013: 245 pagesmedian 218
1002003001950197520001950: 218 pages1950: 218 pages1950: 192 pages1950: 218 pages1950: 253 pages1956: 192 pages1963: 218 pages1963: 218 pages1970: 192 pages1970: 218 pages1974: 224 pages1974: 206 pages1977: 192 pages1983: 192 pages1988: 192 pages1991: 272 pages1996: 249 pages1996: 249 pages1999: 304 pages2000: 104 pages2004: 224 pages2004: 272 pages2004: 272 pages2004: 224 pages2008: 224 pages2008: 112 pages2013: 245 pagesmedian 218
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover22453 h 57 min
Paperback22453 h 57 min
Mass market19253 h 23 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.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013Harper VoyagerPaperback245OL28509974M
2008Bantam BooksPaperback224OL10633850M
2008Oxford University Press–112OL28450085M
2004Bantam Books–224OL3693747M
2004FollettBoundlibrary binding272OL49819475M
2004Simon & SchusterPaperback272OL7850946M
2004Bantam BooksHardcover224OL22744922M
2000Cornelsen & Oxford University PressPaperback104OL9042675M

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Questions

How many pages is I, Robot?
About 218 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 104 to 304 pages.
How long does it take to read I, Robot?
About 3 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is I, Robot?
Roughly 60,000 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).