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How many pages is Unseen Academicals?

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett has a median of 544 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 400 to 544 pages.

Median pages
544
11 editions counted
Range
312–568
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
150k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Unseen Academicals take you?

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Reading time
9 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
20 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.

300400500600201020122015201720202008: 544 pages2009: 400 pages2009: 544 pages2009: 400 pages2010: 540 pages2010: 568 pages2010: 368 pages2011: 544 pages2014: 544 pages2018: 544 pages2020: 312 pagesmedian 544
3004005006002010201520202008: 544 pages2009: 400 pages2009: 544 pages2009: 400 pages2010: 540 pages2010: 568 pages2010: 368 pages2011: 544 pages2014: 544 pages2018: 544 pages2020: 312 pagesmedian 544
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 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 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Oberon Books, Limited–312OL30190924M
2018Transworld Publishers Limited–544OL28689514M
2014Penguin Random House–544OL28511941M
2011Transworld Publishers Limited–544OL34459714M
2010Corgi BooksMass Market Paperback540OL24084450M
2010Charnwood–568OL34454769M
2010HarperMass Market Paperback368OL24087651M
2009Harper–400OL24117382M

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Questions

How many pages is Unseen Academicals?
About 544 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 312 to 568 pages.
How long does it take to read Unseen Academicals?
About 9 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is Unseen Academicals?
Roughly 150,000 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).