Book · by Douglas Adams · first published 1984
How many pages is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has a median of 215 pages across 25 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 182 to 224 pages.
How long will The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 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 | 211 | 6 | 3 h 43 min |
| Paperback | 210 | 5 | 3 h 42 min |
| Mass market | 215 | 6 | 3 h 47 min |
Editions counted
The 25 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 more editions were 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 130 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Pan Macmillan | – | 224 | OL29474406M |
| 2017 | Pan 70 | Paperback | 227 | OL27011341M |
| 2016 | Pan Books | paperback | 210 | OL27280727M |
| 2016 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | – | 132 | OL54871179M |
| 2009 | Pan Books | Paperback | 179 | OL32832539M |
| 2005 | Pan Books | paperback | 325 | OL27284596M |
| 2005 | Ballantine Books | – | 285 | OL17745072M |
| 2004 | Harmony Books | – | 271 | OL3383522M |
| 2004 | Harmony Books | – | 215 | OL22622668M |
| 2003 | Gollancz | Hardcover | 178 | OL7878767M |
| 1997 | Ballantine Books | Mass Market Paperback | 216 | OL17727771M |
| 1997 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 192 | OL24908956M |
| 1994 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | – | 98 | OL18548122M |
| 1991 | Heinemann Educational | – | 182 | OL22779320M |
| 1989 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 224 | OL7690391M |
| 1988 | Isis Large Print | Hardcover | 238 | OL22644679M |
| 1988 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 215 | OL7664065M |
| 1985 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 215 | OL7649470M |
| 1984 | Pan Books | Mass Market Paperback | 160 | OL10488032M |
| 1981 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 215 | OL24209605M |
| 1981 | Pocket Books | mass market paperback | 215 | OL32832269M |
| 1980 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 215 | OL23255889M |
| 1980 | Harmony Books | – | 215 | OL4100160M |
| 1980 | Book Club Associates | Hardcover | 159 | OL32838419M |
| 1979 | Harmony Books | Hardcover | 207 | OL17837787M |
More by Douglas Adams
- 216 pagesLife, the Universe and Everything
- 815 pagesThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 225 pagesThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- 306 pagesDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- 196 pagesSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- 282 pagesThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Questions
- How many pages is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
- About 215 pages: that is the median of 25 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 98 to 325 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
- About 3 h 47 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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
- Roughly 59,000 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).