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How many pages is The Blade Itself?

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie has a median of 534 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 502 to 542 pages.

Median pages
534
8 editions counted
Range
422–617
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
147k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Blade Itself take you?

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Reading time
9 h 24 min
At 30 min a day
19 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

400500600200620082010201220142006: 422 pages2006: 432 pages2007: 531 pages2007: 544 pages2009: 617 pages2010: 525 pages2015: 536 pages2015: 542 pagesmedian 533
400500600201020152006: 422 pages2006: 432 pages2007: 531 pages2007: 544 pages2009: 617 pages2010: 525 pages2015: 536 pages2015: 542 pagesmedian 533
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 16 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2015Orbit–536OL27101786M
2015––542OL27186692M
2010Subterranean Press–525OL27090296M
2009Gollanczpaperback617OL29514108M
2007PyrPaperback531OL9459803M
2007GollanczPaperback544OL7878964M
2006GollanczHardcover422OL7878939M
2006GollanczPaperback432OL7878940M

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Questions

How many pages is The Blade Itself?
About 534 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 422 to 617 pages.
How long does it take to read The Blade Itself?
About 9 h 24 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
How many words is The Blade Itself?
Roughly 147,000 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).