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How many pages is Raising Steam?

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett has a median of 384 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 381 to 402 pages.

Median pages
384
6 editions counted
Range
365–475
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
106k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Raising Steam take you?

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Reading time
6 h 46 min
At 30 min a day
14 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

3504004502011201220132014201520162013: 384 pages2013: 365 pages2013: 380 pages2014: 384 pages2014: 475 pages2014: 408 pagesmedian 384
3504004502012201420162013: 384 pages2013: 365 pages2013: 380 pages2014: 384 pages2014: 475 pages2014: 408 pagesmedian 384
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 21 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2014Anchor Books–384OL27102553M
2014Corgi BooksPaperback475OL25649061M
2014Charnwood–408OL34532425M
2013Transworld Publishers Limited–384OL33453197M
2013Doubleday–365OL26920434M
2013Doubleday–380OL27104334M

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Questions

How many pages is Raising Steam?
About 384 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 365 to 475 pages.
How long does it take to read Raising Steam?
About 6 h 46 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Raising Steam?
Roughly 106,000 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).