How to plan your reading
- Add the books you need to finish, their page counts, current progress and separate deadlines.
- Choose your actual reading weekdays and a start date.
- Generate a Balanced or Focus plan, then review the deadline checks and busiest day.
- When progress changes, update the pages read and start date, then generate a fresh plan.
Why the final deadline is not enough
Suppose you have 100 pages due in 2 reading days and another 100 due in 10. Dividing all 200 pages by 10 gives 20 pages per day, but that misses the first deadline. You need capacity for at least 50 pages per reading day to meet both. Focus uses that capacity on the nearest deadline first.
Balanced versus Focus
For that example, Balanced assigns 50 pages from the first book and 10 from the second on each of the first two days: 60 pages on the busiest day. Focus assigns up to 50 pages each day, finishing the urgent book first. Both preserve the exact remaining page totals.
What this plan does not know
A page of a textbook is not the same workload as a page of a novel. The daily limit is your own page-count preference, not a scientific reading-speed estimate. This tool does not know chapter boundaries, different ebook pagination or your actual progress. All unfinished books are assumed available from the start date.
Reading schedule FAQ
How many pages should I read per day to finish on time?
For one book, divide remaining pages by available reading days and round up. For several deadlines, this tool checks cumulative pages due at each deadline. The largest required rate is the minimum constant daily page capacity that can meet all deadlines with a Focus schedule.
Can I plan several books with different deadlines?
Yes. Add up to 20 books, each with its own total pages, pages already read and deadline. The report combines their workload and keeps each book’s deadline separate.
What is the difference between Balanced and Focus?
Balanced spreads each book across its available days, so you may read several books daily. Focus reads books in deadline order at the minimum required daily capacity. A transition day may finish one book and start another.
Does the daily limit change the plan?
No. Your optional comfortable daily limit is a comparison, not a scheduling constraint. If it is below the minimum required rate, the report warns that the deadlines cannot all be met at that limit. If only Balanced exceeds it, try Focus.
What if I miss a reading day?
Enter the pages you have actually finished, move the start date to your next reading day and generate again. The tool recalculates from this new starting point; it does not track completed sessions automatically.
Are the start date and deadline included?
Yes, when their weekdays are selected. A deadline means the end of that calendar date. The planner uses calendar dates, not elapsed hours, and supports a window of up to 366 calendar days.
Does a page target estimate reading time?
No. Pages can take very different amounts of time across books and editions. This tool schedules whole pages, not minutes, chapters or audiobook time. Enter the last page you actually intend to read and use a consistent edition.
Can I save or print my reading schedule?
Use Copy plan or Print / save PDF. If automatic copying is unavailable, a manual copy box appears. Entries are processed in your browser, not uploaded, and are not saved automatically. Editing inputs clears the old result until you generate again.