Quick Reads
28 books fall into this category. They are short enough to finish in under an hour, such as 'Essay on art and photography' with 30 estimated 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 guide helps you plan your time by estimating how long each book will take to read. Estimates are based on the book's word count and an average reading speed, so they are approximations.
Books are grouped into four time categories: Quick (under 1 hour), Steady (1–3 hours), Immersive (3–6 hours), and Marathon (over 6 hours). This lets you pick a book that fits the time you have.
Steady Reads
16 books are in the Steady range, taking one to three hours. These might be good for an afternoon of focused reading.
Immersive Reads
31 books are Immersive, requiring three to six hours. A title like 'The children and the pictures' falls here, with an estimate of about 3.5 hours.
Marathon Reads
19 books are Marathons, exceeding six hours. For example, 'A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria' is estimated at 575 minutes, or nearly ten hours.
Planning a Sustainable Pace, Page by Page
The Reading Tracker is built around a simple idea: progress is measured in pages, not in chapters or minutes. You set a current page, a total page count, and a daily page goal, and the tracker estimates how many days remain. This works well for books that are long and potentially intimidating, because it breaks the task into daily increments that are easy to visualize.
For example, Impressionist painting: its genesis and development — Background and Themes has a word count of about 50,900 words. With the default 250 words per page, that translates to roughly 204 pages. If you set a daily goal of 20 pages, the tracker would estimate about 11 days to finish. That kind of concrete number can make a substantial art history text feel manageable.
Setting Up Your Page Count
The tracker uses the catalog's page count when available, but many public-domain editions do not include one. In that case, it estimates the total pages as the word count divided by 250 — the configured words per page. You can override this with the total shown by your own reading app or edition, which is useful because pagination varies between print and digital formats.
The current page is the one you are about to read, and the tracker stores your progress in the browser's localStorage. No account is needed, so your history stays on the device you are using.
Using the Daily Goal
The default daily goal is 20 pages, but you can adjust it to fit your schedule. The estimated finish days are calculated as the remaining pages divided by your daily goal, rounded up. If you have 150 pages left and read 20 a day, you would finish in 8 days. If you can read 30 pages a day, that drops to 5 days. The goal is not a commitment — it is a planning tool.
The remaining time estimate is proportional: it takes the estimated minutes for the whole book and multiplies by the fraction of pages remaining. For Impressionist painting, with an estimated 222 minutes total, reading halfway through would leave about 111 minutes. That can help you decide whether to start a book now or wait for a free weekend.
Adjusting as You Go
The tracker is flexible. If you find that your edition has more pages than the estimate, you can update the total and the remaining time will adjust accordingly. If you miss a day, you can simply update the current page and the tracker recalculates the finish date. There is no penalty for changing your goal mid-book.
Because progress is stored locally, you can close the browser and return later without losing your place. The tracker is not a social feature — it is a private tool for your own reading practice. For readers who are reading a short monograph or a multi-volume history, the page-based approach keeps the focus on steady progress rather than on the size of the task.