Reading Goal Planner: Pages Per Day
Add each book or reading with its total pages, the pages you have read and the date you want to finish. Choose the weekdays you will read, add days off and enter your reading speed. The planner spreads the remaining pages over your reading days with exact page ranges for each day, adds up the load when several books overlap, and shows weekly totals and the time each day will take. Tell it when you started and it tells you if you are ahead or behind, and recalculates from today when you log more pages.
Runs in your browser. Saving a plan is optional, stays on this device and can be deleted at any time.
Your reading time
Textbooks are often 15 to 30; light reading is faster. Time yourself for ten minutes to find yours.
Choose a finish date to see your daily target.
Everything is calculated in your browser. Saving is optional and stays on this device. Today counts as a reading day when its weekday is ticked.
How it works
- Add each book with its total pages, the pages already read and the finish date.
- Tick the weekdays you will read, add any days off, and enter your reading speed in pages per hour and your session length.
- Read each book's daily target, the day-by-day page ranges and the week-by-week totals.
- Log pages as you read. Open Track your pace to compare against your original plan. Export a CSV or calendar file, copy the plan or print it.
Options explained
- Reading weekdays and days off
- Only ticked weekdays that are not days off count as reading days. Today counts if its weekday is ticked.
- Reading speed and session length
- Speed turns pages into minutes and applies to every book. Session length shows how many sessions a busy day needs.
- Track your pace
- Enter the date the plan started and the pages read then. The planner compares your pages with the share of reading days that have passed.
How the result is worked out
- The pages left are spread over the reading days as evenly as whole pages allow: each day gets the floor or the ceiling of the average, and the days add up to exactly the pages left.
- Pages per reading day in the headline is the largest day, so a day never needs more than that.
- With several books, each book is planned on its own and the days are added together. A day over three hours is flagged.
- Weeks run Monday to Sunday.
Example
A 320-page book with 121 pages read, finishing in 10 days with every day open, leaves 199 pages. Days are 19 or 20 pages and add up to exactly 199, so no day needs more than 20. The first day starts at page 122. At 30 pages an hour a 20-page day takes about 40 minutes.
Tips for better results
- Time yourself reading ten minutes of the actual material to get a realistic speed.
- Untick the weekdays you know you will skip, so the daily target is honest.
- Update pages read every few days and recalculate, since the daily target changes as you fall behind or get ahead.
- For academic texts, plan time to take notes as well as to read.
Limitations
- Reading speed varies with the material. Dense academic text is much slower than a novel, so time yourself.
- Pages are treated as equal. Chapters with figures or equations take longer than their page count suggests.
- The pace check uses your current weekdays and days off for the whole period, so change them and the comparison changes too.
- A saved plan lives in this browser only and is gone if you clear site data.
Guides that go with this tool
Frequently asked questions
Does today count as a reading day?
Yes, if its weekday is ticked and it is not a day off.
Why do some days have one page more than others?
Pages cannot be split, so the planner alternates days of 19 and 20 pages, for example, so the total is exact and no day is heavier than it needs to be.
How do I find my reading speed?
Read normally for ten minutes, count the pages, and multiply by six.
What if I fall behind?
Update the pages you have read. The plan is recalculated from today and the pace note shows how many pages a day you now need instead of the original number.