Quick Reads
Books under 60 minutes are ideal for a short sitting. Examples include Right off the Bat (52 minutes) and The Man of Taste (41 minutes).
Reading Tracker
Choose a book, record where you are, and set a daily goal. Your progress is stored in localStorage in this browser; it is not uploaded to a user account.
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If the EPUB has no fixed print pagination, the tool starts with an estimated page count and lets you replace it with the page total shown by your own reader.
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How the progress estimate works
The Reading tool provides estimated reading times for every book in the catalog. These estimates are based on word count and an average reading speed, so they are approximate.
You can filter books by reading time category—quick, steady, immersive, or marathon—to find something that fits your schedule. The catalog includes 37 quick reads, 26 steady, 19 immersive, and 11 marathon titles.
Steady Reads
Titles that take a few hours, such as Poems by Isaac Rosenberg (118 minutes) or Rainbow Gold (131 minutes), are good for an afternoon or evening.
Immersive and Marathon
For longer commitments, choose a book like The Golden Treasury (394 minutes) or The English and Scottish popular ballads (1643 minutes). These are suited for deep dives.
Planning Your Progress, Page by Page
The Reading Tracker helps you turn a chosen book into a realistic reading plan. It records progress in pages, not minutes, and uses a daily page goal to estimate when you will finish. For books without a fixed page count in the catalog, it calculates an estimate from the word count, assuming 250 words per page. You can adjust that total to match your own edition.
Setting Your Daily Goal
The tracker defaults to a daily goal of 20 pages, but you can change it to whatever fits your schedule. If you read on a commute, 20 pages might be ambitious; if you have a free afternoon, it might be easy. The goal directly affects the estimated finish date: remaining pages divided by your daily goal, rounded up.
For example, Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II — A Closer Reading has 53,052 words. At 250 words per page, that is about 213 pages. With a 20-page daily goal, you would finish in about 11 days. If you set a 30-page goal, that drops to 8 days. The tracker makes these trade-offs explicit.
Tracking Your Place
You record your current page and the tracker calculates how many pages remain. It also estimates the remaining reading time proportionally: if you have read half the pages, you have used roughly half the estimated minutes. This is a simple way to see if you are on pace.
The tracker stores your history in your browser's local storage, so you do not need an account. Your progress stays on your device, and you can update it as often as you like. This is useful for books you read over several weeks, like a longer collection that you dip into periodically.
Adjusting for Your Edition
The initial page estimate may not match your physical or digital edition. If your book has different pagination, you can replace the total page count with the number shown in your reading app or the book's own pages. The tracker then uses that number for all calculations.
This flexibility is important because public-domain editions vary. A paperback reprint might have different margins and fonts, changing the page count. By entering your edition's total, you get a more accurate picture of your progress.
Using the Tracker with a Concrete Book
Take Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II — A Closer Reading. With a word count of 53,052, the initial page estimate is 213. If your edition shows 240 pages, you can update the total. Set a daily goal of 15 pages, and the tracker estimates you will finish in 16 days. The remaining time estimate adjusts as you log pages, so you always know where you stand.
The tracker does not measure sections or minutes as progress; it is page-based. That keeps the system simple and consistent, even for books with unusual structures.