Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 1984
How many pages is So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams has a median of 196 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 179 to 207 pages.
How long will So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 172 | 6 | 3 h 01 min |
| Paperback | 194 | 4 | 3 h 25 min |
| Mass market | 204 | 3 | 3 h 36 min |
Editions counted
The 14 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 74 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 208 | OL29474405M |
| 2016 | Pan Books | Paperback | 187 | OL38244658M |
| 2009 | Pan Books | Paperback | 200 | OL26497158M |
| 2005 | Del Rey Books | Paperback | 214 | OL3434027M |
| 2005 | Del Rey | Mass Market Paperback | 224 | OL9532582M |
| 2002 | Picador | Paperback | 176 | OL10492631M |
| 1993 | Turtleback Books | Library Binding | 214 | OL7584868M |
| 1988 | Harmony | Hardcover | 152 | OL7691273M |
| 1987 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 204 | OL24220057M |
| 1985 | Pan Books | Mass Market Paperback | 191 | OL16173272M |
| 1985 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 204 | OL2856784M |
| 1984 | Pan Books | Hardcover | 191 | OL22351808M |
| 1984 | Harmony Books | hardcover | 152 | OL35677671M |
| 1984 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 152 | OL32838523M |
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Questions
- How many pages is So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
- About 196 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 152 to 224 pages.
- How long does it take to read So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
- About 3 h 27 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
- Roughly 54,000 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).