Book · by Michael Pollan · first published 2008
How many pages is In Defense of Food?
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan has a median of 244 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 244 to 264 pages.
How long will In Defense of Food take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 17 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Cengage Gale | – | 330 | OL28443121M |
| 2009 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 264 | OL28453855M |
| 2009 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 244 | OL24225704M |
| 2008 | Penguin Press | – | 244 | OL18008081M |
| 2008 | Allen Lane | – | 242 | OL37788376M |
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Questions
- How many pages is In Defense of Food?
- About 244 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 242 to 330 pages.
- How long does it take to read In Defense of Food?
- About 4 h 42 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is In Defense of Food?
- Roughly 67,000 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)).