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Book reading (time) tracker (and reading time stats)
Oct 17, 2025
Functionality to have a time tracker, for how many minutes you spend reading, and when finishing a session, add the page number/percentage of where you stopped, to track pages read per hour.
- Start, pause, stop session.
- Ability to add manual reading session
Book reading tracking details:
- Track how many reading sessions done for a book.
- Total read time (hh:mm:ss)
- Average stats (average pages read, average read time, average minute per page, average pages per hour)
Track per session:
- date (and time?) of a reading session
- Pages read (in that session)
- Read time (hh:mm:ss)
- Calculate average minutes per page
- Calculate average pages per hour
Additional stats one could add:
- Graph of how many pages read per day in a given period (e.g. 7 days, 30 days)
- Graph of how many minutes read per day in a given period
Why?
I personally like seeing how fast I read, and how long it takes me to read a book. It also helps if you want to have a goal of e.g. read 30 minutes a day, you can set a reading goal, and use this tracker functionality to make sure you reached 30 minutes reading)
(yes, this is inspired, by another book tracker app...)
Comments
I’d love to use this app but the absence of a clock is a deal breaker. I can understand people just wanting to read without keeping track. But for me, reading is exactly like exercise for athletes. It’s both something that I have to do to and something that I enjoy. And the more I can keep track of it the better I read. For instance, Bleak House took me 2 months but Bros. Kara. Took less than a week. Because I start a timer every time I read, I now know that B. House a year ago, took forever to finish, partly because I read that ponderously wonderful tome more slowly, but mostly because I read less every day. And the thing is that this otherwise amazing app does focus on keeping track of the books you read and the progress in those books, but you have to keep track of it some other way, and then manually input it, and honestly that defeats the whole purpose of using an app.