Book · by Robert M. Pirsig · first published 2000
How many pages is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig has a median of 418 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 406 to 436 pages.
How long will it 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 21 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 78 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | HarperTorch | Mass Market Paperback | 540 | OL9234081M |
| 2005 | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | – | 430 | OL13520429M |
| 2005 | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Paperback | 430 | OL9237537M |
| 2005 | HarperPerennial Modern Classics | – | 418 | OL23102710M |
| 2005 | Tandem Library | Unknown Binding | 464 | OL9766325M |
| 2000 | Perennial Classics | – | 449 | OL17151708M |
| 2000 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 464 | OL9240366M |
| 1999 | Morrow | – | 418 | OL18195959M |
| 1999 | Quill | – | 436 | OL3581918M |
| 1999 | Vintage | – | 436 | OL22132712M |
| 1991 | Vintage | – | 424 | OL22585599M |
| 1989 | Black Swan | – | 412 | OL22449873M |
| 1984 | Morrow | – | 412 | OL21617844M |
| 1984 | Bantam Books | – | 380 | OL22921897M |
| 1984 | Bantam Books | – | 380 | OL24224878M |
| 1981 | Bantam | – | 412 | OL21089146M |
| 1980 | Bantam | – | 373 | OL21061406M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | – | 406 | OL18388377M |
| 1975 | Bantam Books | – | 406 | OL18387483M |
| 1974 | Morrow | – | 373 | OL22344972M |
| 1974 | Bantam Books | – | 406 | OL26618874M |
Questions
- How many pages is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
- About 418 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 373 to 540 pages.
- How long does it take to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
- About 8 h 03 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
- How many words is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
- Roughly 115,000 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)).