Quick Reads
43 books fall into the quick category, taking under an hour to read. These are often sketch-books, short collections, or pamphlets—ideal for a brief session or an introduction to a topic.
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 provides realistic estimates of how long it will take to read each book in the catalog, based on word count and an average reading speed. These estimates are meant to help you plan your reading time, not to prescribe how fast you should read.
Books are categorized into four time bands: quick (under an hour), steady (1-3 hours), immersive (3-6 hours), and marathon (over 6 hours). You can filter by these bands to find a book that fits your available time.
Steady Reads
19 books are steady reads, taking 1-3 hours. These offer a bit more depth while still being manageable in a single sitting if you have a few hours to spare.
Immersive and Marathon Reads
21 books are immersive, taking 3-6 hours, and 7 are marathon-length, exceeding 6 hours. These longer works are suited for dedicated reading sessions or extended study.
Making Steady Progress, One Page at a Time
The Reading Tracker helps you turn a chosen book into a realistic reading plan. It records progress in pages, not minutes or sections, and it uses your daily page goal to estimate how long the book will take. The tracker is designed to be flexible: you can adjust the total page count to match your edition, and all progress is stored in your browser without an account.
For books in the ABIOC catalog, the tracker estimates the total pages from the word count, assuming 250 words per page. If the catalog provides a fixed page count, it uses that instead. You can always override the total with the page count shown by your reading app or physical edition.
Setting a Daily Page Goal
The default daily goal is 20 pages, but you can change it to suit your schedule. For a book like Sheffield and its Environs 13th to the 17th century A descriptive catalogue of land charters and other documents forming the Brooke Taylor collection — Context and Discussion, which has about 17,000 words, the estimated total pages would be around 68 (17,006 ÷ 250). At 20 pages per day, you would finish in about four days.
If you have less time, you might set a goal of 10 pages per day, which would extend the reading to about seven days. The tracker calculates the estimated finish days as the ceiling of remaining pages divided by your daily goal, so you can see the impact of changing your goal immediately.
Tracking Progress and Adjusting
As you read, you update your current page in the tracker. It then shows the remaining pages and estimates the time left based on the catalog's estimated reading minutes, scaled proportionally. For example, if you are halfway through a book with an estimated reading time of 74 minutes, the remaining time would be about 37 minutes.
The tracker does not record sections or minutes as progress—only pages. This keeps the system simple and consistent, even if your edition has different pagination. If your book's page count differs from the estimate, you can replace the total pages with the correct number, and the tracker will recalculate all estimates.
Using the Tracker with the Library Tools
The Reading Tracker works best after you have used Book Finder and Compare Books to select a title. Once you start reading, the tracker keeps you accountable without requiring a login. Because progress is stored in your browser, you can return to it on the same device and continue where you left off.
For longer books, such as those over 100,000 words, the tracker helps you break them into manageable daily chunks. For shorter books, it can confirm that you can finish in a single sitting. Either way, the tracker Catalogue maintenance uses source records and bibliographic context.