Quick Reads
Books under 20,000 words, like 'Wintering Bees in Cellars' (13,305 words, about 58 minutes), can be finished in an evening.
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 Time Estimator gives a rough idea of how long it may take to read a book. It uses the book's word count and assumes an average reading speed of about 230 words per minute.
Your own pace may vary. The estimates are meant to help you plan, not to be exact. For example, the median book in this catalog has about 38,000 words, which would take roughly 166 minutes at that speed.
Immersive Reads
Medium-length books, such as 'Bee Keeping for Profit' (37,783 words, about 165 minutes), offer more depth without a huge time commitment.
Marathon Reads
Long books like 'Cottage Economy' (86,475 words, about 376 minutes) or 'The book of the cat' (198,648 words, about 864 minutes) require significant time.
Steady Progress: Using the Reading Tracker
The Reading Tracker is a simple tool for keeping a book moving. It records your progress in pages, with a current page, a total page count, and a daily page goal. From those numbers, it estimates how many days you have left. The tracker does not measure minutes or sections; it is built around the page as the unit of progress.
Setting Up Your Book
When you start a new book, the tracker needs to know the total number of pages. If the catalog does not provide a fixed page count, it estimates one by dividing the word count by 250 words per page. For example, Profitable poultry — Inside the Classic (id 308) has about 18,743 words, so the initial estimate would be roughly 75 pages.
You can replace that estimate with the total page count from your own edition or reading app. This is useful if you are reading a printed book with different pagination or an ebook that displays a different number of pages.
You also set a daily page goal. The default is 20 pages, but you can adjust it to match your available time. If you are reading a dense text like Profitable poultry, which has an average sentence length of over 36 words, you might prefer a lower goal to allow for careful reading.
Tracking Your Progress
As you read, you update the current page number. The tracker then calculates your estimated remaining time by taking the estimated reading minutes and scaling it by the fraction of pages remaining. For Profitable poultry, the estimated reading time is 82 minutes. If you have read half the book, you have about 41 minutes left.
The estimated finish days are calculated by dividing the remaining pages by your daily goal. If you have 40 pages left and a goal of 20 pages per day, you will finish in 2 days. This gives you a concrete target to work toward.
The tracker stores your progress in your browser's localStorage, so you do not need an account. You can close the page and come back later, and your current page will still be there.
Adjusting as You Go
Your reading pace may change. If you find that 20 pages a day is too much, you can lower the goal. If you are making faster progress, you can raise it. The tracker is flexible, and it recalculates the estimates each time you update your current page or goal.
You can also change the total page count if you discover that your edition differs from the estimate. This ensures that the remaining time and finish days remain accurate.
The tracker is not a judge; it is a planner. It helps you see how much time a book will take and how to fit it into your schedule. By breaking a long book into daily pages, you can make steady progress without feeling overwhelmed.
Making Progress Visible
Seeing the remaining pages shrink can be motivating. The tracker provides a simple visual representation of your progress, which can help you stay on track. For readers who are reading a short manual or a lengthy treatise, the tracker turns an abstract goal into a daily habit.