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How many pages is Sourcery?

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett has a median of 274 pages across 12 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 255 to 336 pages.

Median pages
274
12 editions counted
Range
214–336
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
75k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
4 h 50 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20025030035019901995200020051988: 256 pages1989: 256 pages1989: 253 pages1989: 214 pages1989: 334 pages1996: 243 pages2001: 288 pages2001: 260 pages2003: 336 pages2008: 336 pages2009: 336 pages2009: 336 pagesmedian 274
200250300350199020001988: 256 pages1989: 256 pages1989: 253 pages1989: 214 pages1989: 334 pages1996: 243 pages2001: 288 pages2001: 260 pages2003: 336 pages2008: 336 pages2009: 336 pages2009: 336 pagesmedian 274
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 12 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 50 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2009Penguin Random House–336OL34428838M
2009Transworld Publishers Limited–336OL33386750M
2008Transworld Publishers Limited–336OL34425005M
2003Tandem Library–336OL7600773M
2001HarperTorchMass Market Paperback288OL9241409M
2001HarperTorch–260OL23010490M
1996Orion Publishing Group, Limited–243OL34407158M
1989Roc–256OL7572807M

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Questions

How many pages is Sourcery?
About 274 pages: that is the median of 12 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 214 to 336 pages.
How long does it take to read Sourcery?
About 4 h 50 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is Sourcery?
Roughly 75,000 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).