Quick Reads
Books under 60 minutes are perfect for a short break. Examples include 'Bob Bowen Comes to Town' (93 minutes) and 'Red stripes' (40 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 Time Calculator provides an estimate of how long it will take to read a book based on its word count. The median reading time for the catalog is about 278 minutes, but individual books range from under an hour to over twenty hours.
Estimates are based on an average reading speed of about 230 words per minute. Your actual time may vary depending on your pace and the complexity of the text. Use the calculator to plan your reading schedule.
Steady Reads
Books between 1 and 3 hours offer a satisfying session. 'The Master Rogue' is about 217 minutes, and 'The fortunes of Fifi' is 221.
Marathon Reads
For a longer commitment, choose a book over 6 hours. 'The Wolfe of Badenoch' is estimated at 1222 minutes, and 'Hadrian the Seventh' at 561.
Making Steady Progress in Pages
The Reading Tracker is built around a simple idea: you make progress in pages, not in minutes or chapters. It asks for a current page, a total page count, and a daily page goal, then calculates how long the rest of the book should take. The tracker does not record how long you read or which section you reached; it only cares about pages. That keeps the planning straightforward and lets you focus on the act of reading itself.
For books in this catalog, the tracker often has to estimate the total page count because the original editions did not always include a fixed page number in the metadata. When that happens, the tracker uses a default of 250 words per page and rounds up to the nearest whole page. You can override that estimate with the page count from your own edition or reading app, which is useful if you are working from a print copy or a different digital format.
Setting a daily goal that fits your life
The tracker defaults to a daily goal of 20 pages, but you can change it to anything that works for you. The goal is the engine of the estimate: the higher the goal, the sooner you finish, but the more you need to read each day. The tracker calculates estimated finish days by dividing the remaining pages by your daily goal and rounding up. For example, if you have 100 pages left and you set a goal of 20 pages per day, you will finish in 5 days.
A concrete example: On Strike, or, Where do the Girls come in? — Text and Context is a short book with 6,244 words. At 250 words per page, that is about 25 pages. If you set a goal of 20 pages per day, you could finish it in two days — one day for the first 20 pages, and a second day for the remaining 5. That kind of calculation helps you plan a weekend read or a quick weekday break.
Adjusting the total page count
The tracker’s initial estimate of total pages is based on the catalog’s word count and the 250-word-per-page default. But your edition may differ. A paperback with wide margins might have fewer words per page, meaning more pages overall; a dense e-book might have more words per page. The tracker lets you replace the total with the number shown by your own reading app or the book’s actual page count. This is especially helpful for longer books, where a small difference in pages can change the estimated finish date by several days.
Once you update the total, the tracker recalculates the remaining time proportionally. The formula is straightforward: estimated minutes times remaining pages divided by total pages. So if a book is estimated at 300 minutes and you have read half of the pages, the remaining time is about 150 minutes. This proportional approach works regardless of For readers who are using the default estimate or your own page count.
Using the tracker with the rest of the catalog
The tracker is most useful when you combine it with the Book Finder and Compare Books. The Finder can help you choose a book that fits your available time, and the Compare tool can show you how different books stack up in terms of sections and sentence flow. Once you have made a choice, the tracker gives you a concrete plan to finish. Because progress is stored in your browser’s localStorage, you can close the page and come back later without losing your place, and no account is required.
That simplicity is the point. The tracker does not try to be a full reading journal; it just answers the question, 'How many pages do I need to read each day to finish this book?' For a catalog that includes everything from a 6,244-word short story to a 281,036-word historical romance, that question can be surprisingly useful. A book like The Wolfe of Badenoch — Reading Notes, with its 1,222 estimated minutes, becomes more manageable when broken into daily page goals.