Book · by Terry Pratchett
How many pages is The Colour of Magic?
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett has a median of 217 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 205 to 261 pages.
How long will The Colour of Magic 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 | 207 | 3 | 3 h 39 min |
| Paperback | 288 | 4 | 5 h 04 min |
Editions counted
The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 93 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Orion Publishing Group, Limited | – | 196 | OL34455448M |
| 2009 | Harper | Paperback | 288 | OL26968905M |
| 2008 | Gollancz | Hardcover | 196 | OL7878968M |
| 2007 | Harper | – | 210 | OL23099137M |
| 2005 | Corgi | Paperback | 287 | OL28430533M |
| 2005 | Harper | – | 224 | OL3423907M |
| 2000 | HarperPaperbacks | – | 210 | OL23000228M |
| 1997 | ISIS Large Print Books | Hardcover | 261 | OL9668129M |
| 1994 | ISIS Large Print Bks. | – | 230 | OL17910160M |
| 1994 | ISIS | – | 261 | OL23134575M |
| 1992 | Corgi | – | 240 | OL15062262M |
| 1990 | Corgi | Paperback | 288 | OL26211572M |
| 1989 | Colin Smythe | Hardcover | 207 | OL8308023M |
| 1985 | Corgi | – | 237 | OL22401616M |
| 1985 | Corgi Books | Paperback | 287 | OL28477029M |
| 1983 | St. Martin's Press | – | 183 | OL44937869M |
| 1983 | Colin Smythe | – | 205 | OL22632398M |
| 1983 | St. Martin's Press | – | 183 | OL16567139M |
| 1983 | St. Martin's Press | – | 205 | OL3167663M |
| 1983 | Smythe | – | 205 | OL18798385M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Colour of Magic?
- About 217 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 183 to 288 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Colour of Magic?
- About 3 h 50 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
- How many words is The Colour of Magic?
- Roughly 60,000 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).