Pages left, days left
Take the pages you have left and divide them by the reading days before your deadline. Only the days you ticked count. The number rounds up, so the last day is a little lighter, never heavier.
Free reading schedule calculator
Find out how many pages a day will get your reading done by the deadline. Miss a day and it quietly re-plans the rest.
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One-minute reading speed check
Read the passage at your normal pace, the way you would read for your course. After a minute, tap the last word you reached.
The library opened at nine, but the café across the road opened at eight, so Maya started most mornings there. She liked the corner table by the window, where the light came in low and the noise of the coffee machine faded into a steady hum. She would open her book, set her phone face down, and read until the clock on the wall reached a quarter to nine. It was not a long session. It was enough. Some days she read twenty pages and some days only eight, but the book kept moving, and that was the point. Her course had a reading list that looked impossible on the first day of term. Eleven books, three of them thick, and a handful of articles that were short but slow. She had tried reading in long weekend blocks at first. By Sunday evening she could not remember what she had read on Saturday morning, and the next week she skipped it altogether. So she changed the plan. Instead of waiting for a free day, she gave each book a small daily number and a finish date. The number was always something she could manage before the library opened. When she missed a day, she did not try to double up the next morning. She simply spread the missing pages over the days that were left and carried on. The plan bent, but it did not break. Over the weeks she noticed something else. Reading a little every day made the books feel connected. A character from one novel would echo an idea from an article she had read on Tuesday, and she would write a line in the margin to remember it. Those notes became the start of her essays. By the end of term she had not read every page of every book, and nobody expected her to. But she had finished the ones that mattered, on time, without a single all-night panic. When friends asked how she managed it, she said it was not discipline. It was arithmetic. A big number divided by enough days becomes a small number, and a small number is easy to start. The café owner started saving the corner table for her. On the last morning of term she left a note under her cup to say thank you, then crossed the road as the library doors opened, and went in to return the last book on the list.
How this reading schedule works
One division, done honestly, and done again whenever the week goes sideways.
Done before the deadline
The plan stops the day before your deadline, so the deadline itself stays free for the exam or the essay. The finish date you see is the last day you actually need to read.
Missed a day? Spread it out
Tap I missed today and the pages move across the days that are left. No catching up in one go, no red marks. Log what you read and tomorrow's number shrinks to match.
Time is an estimate
Reading time assumes about 300 words a page and 200 words a minute, a practical starting point. The one-minute check swaps in your own speed from one sample. Dense textbooks will take longer than a novel.
What this tool will not do
It will not look up your book, test what you understood, or promise you can read faster. There is no book database and no speed-reading. It does the division, keeps the plan honest when a day slips, and leaves the reading to you.
Questions
It takes the pages you have left and divides them by the reading days left before your deadline, counting only the weekdays you ticked. It rounds up, so you never fall short, and the plan always finishes before the deadline day, never on it.
Tap I missed today. Today comes out of the plan and the pages you have left are spread over the reading days that remain. You see the new number straight away. If you can read after all, one tap puts today back.
It is an estimate. By default it assumes about 300 words a page and 200 words a minute, which is a stated starting point, not a measure of you. The one-minute speed test replaces the speed with your own, from one sample, so treat it as a rough guide.
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