Book · by Randall Munroe
How many pages is What If??
What If? by Randall Munroe has a median of 313 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 304 to 320 pages.
Median pages
313
6 editions counted
Range
303–336
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.0h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
86k
at 275 words per page
How long will What If? take you?
Reading time
6 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
13 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 306 | OL51811347M |
| 2018 | VIVAT | paperback | 320 | OL44567676M |
| 2015 | H&S | Paperback | 304 | OL28375725M |
| 2014 | Hodder & Stoughton | – | 336 | OL29233221M |
| 2014 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | – | 303 | OL26327044M |
| 2014 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company | – | 320 | OL29693527M |
Questions
- How many pages is What If??
- About 313 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 303 to 336 pages.
- How long does it take to read What If??
- About 6 h 02 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 13 days.
- How many words is What If??
- Roughly 86,000 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)).