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How many pages is Magician?

Magician by Raymond E. Feist has a median of 681 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 681 to 836 pages.

Median pages
681
15 editions counted
Range
545โ€“864
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
187k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
12 h
At 30 min a day
25 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

6008001990200020101982: 568 pages1983: 545 pages1984: 552 pages1984: 832 pages1992: 681 pages1992: 681 pages2001: 704 pages2002: 681 pages2003: 681 pages2009: 681 pages2010: 736 pages2010: 841 pages2012: 841 pages2013: 841 pages2013: 864 pagesmedian 681
60080020001982: 568 pages1983: 545 pages1984: 552 pages1984: 832 pages1992: 681 pages1992: 681 pages2001: 704 pages2002: 681 pages2003: 681 pages2009: 681 pages2010: 736 pages2010: 841 pages2012: 841 pages2013: 841 pages2013: 864 pagesmedian 681
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
Hardcover681712 h
Paperback692812 h 12 min

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 25 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2013HarperCollins UKPaperback841OL28296870M
2013Harper Collins PublishersHardcover864OL28424712M
2012HarperCollins PublishersPaperback841OL28181758M
2010De BoekerijHardcover736OL22638695M
2010HarperCollins Publishers LimitedHardcover841OL44138919M
2009HarpercollinsPaperback681OL22068290M
2003Barnes & NobleHardcover681OL8013673M
2002HarperCollins PublishersHardcover681OL27280543M

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Questions

How many pages is Magician?
About 681 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 545 to 864 pages.
How long does it take to read Magician?
About 12 h at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 25 days.
How many words is Magician?
Roughly 187,000 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).