Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 1992
How many pages is Mostly Harmless?
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams has a median of 235 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 219 to 273 pages.
How long will Mostly Harmless 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 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 53 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Pan Books | Paperback | 230 | OL24613527M |
| 2000 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 240 | OL9486017M |
| 1996 | ISIS Large Print Books | Library Binding | 272 | OL9472904M |
| 1993 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 288 | OL9476074M |
| 1993 | Pan Books | – | 219 | OL22083460M |
| 1992 | Heinemann | – | 219 | OL18772737M |
| 1992 | Harmony Books | – | 277 | OL1722032M |
| 1992 | BCA | – | 219 | OL18626468M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Mostly Harmless?
- About 235 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 219 to 288 pages.
- How long does it take to read Mostly Harmless?
- About 4 h 09 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
- How many words is Mostly Harmless?
- Roughly 65,000 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).