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How many books did you plan to read this year? Enter your goal and what you have read so far, and see the weekly pace you need for the rest of the year plus your projected year-end total at the current pace. Free to use, no sign-up required.
Enter a goal and your current count to see the results.
A yearly number is hard to act on. Translate it into a weekly pace and you know exactly what to do this week: a 52-book year simply means one book a week.
The calculator goes one step further. At any point in the year it recalculates the pace for the days you actually have left, counting the books you have already finished. Falling behind often looks worse than it is once you divide by the remaining days.
| Yearly goal | Weekly pace | Monthly pace |
|---|---|---|
| 12 books | 0.2 / week | 1 / month |
| 24 books | 0.5 / week | 2 / month |
| 50 books | 1 / week | 4.2 / month |
| 100 books | 1.9 / week | 8.3 / month |
Exactly one book a week. If you read a 300-page book at an average speed of about 40 pages per hour, that is roughly 7.5 hours per book, so an hour a day keeps you on a book-a-week pace.
Put your current numbers into the calculator and look at the recalculated pace for the remaining days; it is often more manageable than it feels. If it is genuinely out of reach, lower the goal. A reading goal is a device for consistency, not for guilt.
Start from what you actually read last year. If that was 10 books, aim for 12, not 50. Hitting an achievable goal repeatedly builds a far stronger reading habit than setting an ambitious one and abandoning it.
Yes. The calculator counts the days left until December 31 from today, so whether you start in July or November it gives you a realistic pace for the time you actually have.
Set a yearly goal in Booklog and every book you log fills in your progress automatically. The library, notes, and transcription stay free.
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