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How to track detailed reading progress with pages, time, or percentage

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Once you’ve created a Reading Status for a book in Book Tracker, you can log how much you’ve read in three different ways depending on the book’s format: by Pages, by Time, or by Percentage. This tutorial covers all three plus how to log, edit, and convert progress.

💡 If you haven’t created a Reading Status yet, start there: How to use Reading Status. This tutorial picks up from there.

The three tracking types

Book Tracker suggests the most suitable tracking type automatically based on the book’s format (for example, Time for audiobooks), but you can choose any of the three.

Pages

Best for printed books and eBooks.

  • When creating the Reading Status, select Pages.
  • Enter the total number of pages.
  • Optionally add a Start page and End page if you don’t want to count introductions or indexes.
  • Log progress by entering the last page you reached. Book Tracker calculates the percentage automatically.

Time

Best for audiobooks.

  • When creating the Reading Status, select Time.
  • Enter the total duration in HH:mm format.
  • Log progress by adding how much listening time you’ve completed.

Percentage

Useful for formats without consistent page numbers (some eBooks, comics, manga).

  • When creating the Reading Status, select Percentage.
  • Enter the total number of pages anyway so statistics remain accurate.
  • Log progress by entering the percentage completed.

Manual entry — logging progress by hand

If you didn’t use the Reading Timer, you can log progress manually at any time:

  1. Open the Reading Status page of the book.
  2. Tap the + button in the progress list.
  3. Enter the pages or percentage read, and optionally the time spent.

Manual entries appear in the same progress list as timer-recorded sessions. There’s no functional difference.

Editing or deleting a progress entry

If you made a mistake (wrong number of pages, wrong time, wrong date):

  • Long press the progress entry (or right-click on Mac).
  • Select Edit to adjust the values, or Delete to remove the entry.

This is also how you fix progress entries that were created with a wrong total length. See the next section.

Changing the tracking type or total length

You can change the tracking type or fix the total length of a book at any time, even after you’ve started logging progress.

  1. Open the book.
  2. Open its Reading Status.
  3. Tap the three-dot menu in the top-right.
  4. Choose one of:
    • Convert progress — switch tracking type (e.g., from Pages to Percentage). Existing progress is converted automatically.
    • Edit total length — fix the total number of pages or audiobook duration if it was entered incorrectly.

If you increase the total length and the book was marked as Read, Book Tracker moves it back to Reading so you can continue logging progress. If you decrease the total length, you may need to delete progress entries that exceed the new total. See What to do if a book has the wrong page count for the full procedure.

Time + Pages: tracking both

When you use Pages or Percentage as your tracking type, you can also record the time you spent reading. There are two ways:

  • Automatic — start the Reading Timer while you read. Book Tracker records both the pages and the time.
  • Manual — when you tap + to add a progress entry, fill in both fields.

This is how Book Tracker can show you stats like “average reading pace: 32 pages/hour” and “estimated time to finish”.

Why detailed tracking matters

Detailed progress doesn’t just look good in statistics. It enables:

  • A realistic estimated completion time for any book you’re reading.
  • Accurate yearly reading challenges by pages read, not just books finished.
  • Insight into your reading habits — average session length, books per month.
  • A complete reading log you can look back on years from now.

Best practices

  • Verify the total length (pages or HH:mm) before starting to log progress.
  • Use Pages + Reading Timer if you want the richest statistics.
  • For audiobooks, use Time.
  • For comics, manga, or eBooks without page numbers, Percentage is the most honest choice.
  • If you forget to start the Timer, add a manual entry at the end of your session. Better an estimate than nothing.
  • Edit progress entries immediately when you spot a mistake; it keeps your historical data clean.