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How many pages is Mort?

Mort by Terry Pratchett has a median of 286 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 243 to 319 pages.

Median pages
286
14 editions counted
Range
181–320
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.0h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
79k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
5 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

200250300199019952000200520101987: 181 pages1988: 272 pages1989: 316 pages1989: 240 pages1995: 303 pages1996: 300 pages2001: 243 pages2001: 243 pages2003: 272 pages2004: 320 pages2008: 320 pages2009: 320 pages2009: 320 pages2011: 192 pagesmedian 286
2002503001990200020101987: 181 pages1988: 272 pages1989: 316 pages1989: 240 pages1995: 303 pages1996: 300 pages2001: 243 pages2001: 243 pages2003: 272 pages2004: 320 pages2008: 320 pages2009: 320 pages2009: 320 pages2011: 192 pagesmedian 286
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 61 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2011Transworld Publishers Limited–192OL33424093M
2009Penguin Random House–320OL34428605M
2009Transworld Publishers Limited–320OL33403208M
2008Penguin Random House–320OL34425431M
2004Transworld Publishers Limited–320OL34422434M
2003Tandem Library–272OL7600768M
2001HarperTorch–243OL23010478M
2001HarperTorch–243OL7286703M

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Questions

How many pages is Mort?
About 286 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 181 to 320 pages.
How long does it take to read Mort?
About 5 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Mort?
Roughly 79,000 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).