Book · by Anne McCaffrey
How many pages is The White Dragon?
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey has a median of 472 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 468 to 493 pages.
How long will The White Dragon 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 | 482 | 2 | 8 h 30 min |
| Paperback | 470 | 2 | 8 h 17 min |
Editions counted
The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 40 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 480 | OL57541899M |
| 2003 | Ballantine Books Inc. | Paperback | 464 | OL3547349M |
| 1999 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 468 | OL7973627M |
| 1981 | Ballantine Books | Hardcover | 497 | OL9431246M |
| 1980 | Corgi | Paperback | 475 | OL22003621M |
| 1979 | Ballantine Books | – | 468 | OL24223871M |
| 1979 | Sidgwick and Jackson | – | 497 | OL17413321M |
| 1979 | Ballantine Books | – | 468 | OL22745405M |
| 1979 | Ballantine Books | – | 468 | OL24223870M |
| 1978 | Ballantine Books | – | 497 | OL4550328M |
More by Anne McCaffrey
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All 12 books by Anne McCaffrey with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is The White Dragon?
- About 472 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 464 to 497 pages.
- How long does it take to read The White Dragon?
- About 8 h 19 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is The White Dragon?
- Roughly 130,000 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)).