How Estimates Are Made
Estimates are calculated by dividing the word count by an average reading speed of about 230 words per minute. The result is presented in minutes and hours, giving you a practical sense of time commitment.
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 tool helps you estimate how long it will take to finish a book from this archive. It uses the book's word count and a typical reading speed to give you a rough figure in minutes or hours.
This is an estimate, not a promise. Your actual reading time may vary based on your pace, familiarity with the subject, and the text's complexity. The tool also shows how a book's length compares to the archive's median, so you can plan your reading sessions accordingly.
Length Categories
Books are grouped into four length categories: short (under 30,000 words), medium (30,000–70,000), long (70,000–120,000), and epic (over 120,000). This helps you quickly identify the scale of the work.
Time Categories
Reading time is also categorized as quick (under 60 minutes), steady (1–3 hours), immersive (3–6 hours), or marathon (over 6 hours). Use these to align your reading choices with your available time.
Planning Your Reading with the Tracker
Reading Tracker is built around pages, not 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. It does not record sections or minutes — the unit is always the page. That keeps the plan simple and tied to the physical or digital page you are actually reading.
Start with an Estimate
When a fixed catalog page count is not available, the tracker estimates one from the word count, assuming 250 words per page. For example, Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal — A Reader’s Guide (id 249) has about 139,000 words. Dividing by 250 gives roughly 556 pages. That number is a starting point, not a precise fact — your edition may differ.
You can replace the total page count with the number shown by your own reading app or printed copy. This is important for public-domain texts, where page numbering varies widely between editions. The tracker is designed to work with whatever edition you have.
Set a Daily Goal
The default daily goal is 20 pages. For a book like Italy, that would mean about 28 days of reading (556 divided by 20, rounded up). If you prefer a slower pace, you might set 10 pages a day, which would take about 56 days. The tracker calculates estimated finish days as the ceiling of remaining pages divided by your daily goal.
You can adjust the goal at any time. The tracker also shows estimated remaining time in minutes, proportional to the original estimate: estimated_minutes × remaining_pages / total_pages. So if you have read 100 pages of Italy, the remaining time would be roughly 605 × (456/556), or about 496 minutes.
Track Progress in Your Browser
Progress is stored in your browser's localStorage, so you do not need an account. That means your place is saved between sessions on the same device, but it is not synced across devices. If you switch computers, you would start a new record — though you can manually set the current page to where you left off.
The tracker is a planning tool, not a social platform. It helps you see how a long book breaks down into daily steps, which can make a 600-page volume feel less daunting.
Adjust as You Go
If you fall behind or read ahead, simply update the current page and the tracker recalculates. You can also change the total page count if you discover your edition has a different number of pages. The estimates are always based on the numbers you provide, so they stay accurate.
For a book like Italy, which has 17 text sections, you might find that a daily goal of 20 pages does not always align with chapter breaks. The tracker does not track sections, but you can use the page count to plan around them. The goal is to keep you moving, not to force a rigid schedule.