How many pages of text will fit on a CD?

Uncompressed:

More than 100 thousand... (in other Words, more than anybody will ever need)

Compressed:

Easily several hundred thousand 8*10 inch pages of plain-text (just letters, numbers, and punctuation)

Possibly up to a million pages...

Calculations are generous:

Using another answer of about 5,000 (was under 4k) letters per page:

5,000 characters directly translates into 5kb

a typical CD holds about 700mb of data

700mb/5kb = 140,000

a typical CD will hold over 100 thousand 8*10 inch pages of raw text (just numbers, letters, and punctuation) (not double sided), uncompressed

compressed to 20% of original size:

500,000 pages of text