Quick Reads
18 books are categorized as 'quick' reads, with an estimated reading time under an hour. 'Wichita' at 30 minutes is a brief glimpse into a city's history.
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.
No sign-up required
Stored in your browser
Estimated time remaining
Choose a book
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.
Reading progress
0%
0 / 0 pages
Remaining
—
Estimated time left
—
At your daily goal
—
Stored locally
Reading history
| Date | Start | End | Read |
|---|
How the progress estimate works
The Reading tool gives realistic estimates of how long it will take to read a book, based on its word count. It also categorizes books by length: short, medium, long, or epic, so you can choose accordingly.
These estimates use an average reading speed of about 230 words per minute. Actual times will vary, but the tool gives you a baseline to plan your reading schedule.
Steady Reads
19 books fall into the 'steady' category, taking a few hours. Works like 'The Father of British Canada' (211 minutes) fit here.
Immersive and Marathon
41 books are 'immersive', requiring several sittings, while 21 are 'marathon' reads, exceeding 10 hours. 'The Great Company' (774 minutes) is a marathon.
Tracking Progress by Pages: A Sustainable Approach
Reading Tracker is designed to help you maintain steady progress through a book by recording your place in pages. It does not track sections or minutes; the unit is the page. This simplicity makes it easy to integrate into a daily routine, and it works with any edition because you can adjust the total page count to match your copy.
Setting Up Your Total Pages
When you start a book, the tracker provides an initial page estimate based on the book's word count and a default of 250 words per page. For example, "Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott — Reading Notes" (id 292) has a word count of 90,249, which would estimate to about 361 pages. You can keep this estimate or replace it with the total page count shown by your own reading app or edition.
Using your own page count is often more accurate because different editions may have different formatting. The tracker allows that flexibility, so your progress records reflect the actual book you are reading.
Recording Your Current Page
Each time you read, update the current page field. The tracker then calculates the remaining pages and uses that to estimate the time left, based on the book's estimated reading minutes. For "Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott" (id 292), if you have read 100 pages out of 361, the remaining time is roughly 393 minutes × (261 / 361), which comes to about 284 minutes. That is a simple proportional calculation.
The tracker also estimates the number of days to finish, based on your daily page goal. The default goal is 20 pages per day, but you can set it higher or lower. If you set a goal of 20 pages per day for "Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott" (id 292), the remaining 261 pages would take about 14 days (ceil(261 / 20)).
Adjusting Your Daily Goal
The daily page goal is the lever you control. If you have a busy week, you might lower it to 10 pages per day, which would extend the finish date but keep the task manageable. If you have more time, you could raise it to 30 or 40 pages and finish sooner. The tracker recalculates the estimated finish days accordingly.
The goal is not a judgment; it is a planning tool. A sustainable pace is more important than a fast one, and the tracker helps you see the trade-off between daily effort and completion time.
Progress History and No Account Needed
The tracker stores your progress history in your browser's localStorage. This means you do not need an account, and your data stays on your device. If you clear your browser data, the history will be lost, so it is wise to keep a manual note of your page numbers if you switch browsers or devices.
Because the tracker is page-based, it works for any book, regardless of structure. You can use it for a short book like "Wichita" (id 309) or a long one like "Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6" (id 301). The same method applies: set the total pages, update your current page, and let the tracker guide your progress.