Book · by Paul Kalanithi
How many pages is When Breath Becomes Air?
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi has a median of 256 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 256 pages.
How long will When Breath Becomes Air take you?
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 5 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 35 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Penguin Random House | – | 256 | OL28702297M |
| 2017 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | OL26433754M |
| 2016 | – | – | 241 | OL27205591M |
| 2016 | Random House | Hardcover | 256 | OL32830998M |
| 2016 | The Bodley Head | Hardcover | 256 | OL26433733M |
Questions
- How many pages is When Breath Becomes Air?
- About 256 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 241 to 256 pages.
- How long does it take to read When Breath Becomes Air?
- About 4 h 56 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is When Breath Becomes Air?
- Roughly 70,000 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)).