Quick Reads
Books under 40,000 words, like 'Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins' at 31,482 words, can be finished in a single sitting.
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 gives you honest estimates based on each book's word count and an average reading speed. You can adjust the pace to see how long a title might take for you personally.
The catalog's median word count is 78,215 words, which corresponds to about 341 minutes of reading at a standard pace. However, individual books vary widely, from quick reads to lengthy sagas.
Steady Reads
Medium-length works, such as 'The Cricket on the Hearth' at 35,895 words, offer a compact story for a few sessions.
Immersive Reads
Longer titles, like 'The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush' at 103,625 words, require more time but provide a deeper experience.
Making Progress Page by Page
The Reading Tracker is a simple tool that records your progress in pages, not chapters or minutes. You enter your current page, the total pages, and a daily page goal, and the tracker estimates how many days are left. It stores your history in the browser, so no account is needed. This approach works well for any book, but it is especially useful for longer titles where a page goal keeps you honest.
Set a total that matches your edition
The tracker's default total is based on the library's estimate of 250 words per page, but you can change it to match the page count shown by your own reading app or printed edition. This is important because page counts vary widely between formats. A 31,000-word book like Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) — Themes and Context would default to about 126 pages, but a paperback edition might have more or fewer.
Adjusting the total ensures that your daily goal and estimated finish date are accurate. If you leave the default, you are working with a rough estimate, which is fine for planning but less precise for tracking actual progress.
The tracker also lets you update your current page as you go, so you can see your remaining pages and the estimated time left at any moment.
Choose a daily goal that fits your life
The default daily goal is 20 pages, but you can set it higher or lower. The tracker then calculates the estimated finish days as the ceiling of remaining pages divided by your daily goal. For example, if you have 100 pages left and a 20-page goal, you will finish in 5 days. If you raise the goal to 30, you finish in 4 days; if you lower it to 10, it takes 10 days.
A useful approach is to pick a goal you can sustain. A realistic goal is better than an ambitious one you abandon. The tracker is not a judge; it is a planning aid. You can adjust the goal at any time, and the tracker will update your estimates accordingly.
Use the estimate to pace a long book
For a longer book, the page-based estimate helps you see the finish line. Consider Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) — Themes and Context, which has an estimated reading time of 137 minutes and a default page count of about 126. With a 20-page daily goal, you would finish in about 7 days. That is a manageable commitment for a book that might otherwise seem daunting.
The tracker's proportional formula for remaining time is simple: estimated minutes times remaining pages divided by total pages. This gives you a rough sense of how many hours you have left, which can help you decide whether to read more on a free afternoon or spread the book over several evenings. By recording your progress page by page, you build a steady rhythm that turns a large public-domain text into a series of achievable steps.