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Track books by pages read and see whether you are on pace for your reading goal for the year.
A reading log records what you have read: the book, how long it was, how far you got, and when you finished. Counting pages rather than books is what makes the total comparable, since a year of short novels and a year of one long biography are not the same amount of reading.
One spreadsheet, two sheets, ready to keep or print. Nothing you type is sent to a server.
1. Reading
A row per book with author, length, pages read, status, rating and the date you finished, totalled with a live SUM.
2. Progress
Goal against pages read, how much of the year has gone, whether you are ahead or behind, and the pages a day that would close it.
Finished dates are written as real dates rather than text, so a spreadsheet can sort and filter them without anyone reformatting the column first.
Excel
Double click the download. If Excel shows a yellow protected view bar, click Enable Editing so the formulas calculate.
Google Sheets
Upload it to Drive and open it, or use File then Import then Upload inside an existing sheet. Formatting and formulas both carry across.
Numbers on a Mac
Open it directly. Numbers converts the workbook and keeps the totals working, though the yellow header fill may shift slightly.
Formula
on pace = goal x (days elapsed / days in year) · pages a day = (goal - read) / days leftgoal in pages = not books. A books per year target rewards picking thin ones and makes a long book feel like a setback
days elapsed = why being ahead in January does not read the same as being ahead in November
pages read = counted for every book including the abandoned ones, for the part you actually read
pages a day = the only number that tells you what to do tomorrow rather than how the year went
Worked Example
A 7,000 page year, checked at the end of August
Did you know? Twenty minutes a day is the figure most reading targets quietly assume. At an average adult pace of roughly 250 words a minute, and about 250 words to a page, that is 20 pages a day, 7,000 a year, or somewhere near 20 books of average length. The habit is the number worth setting; the total is the consequence.
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