There is a plethora of reading planners for religious books, but a dearth of them for regular books, so I thought I'd try the App Requests page.
The core functionality of the app is as follows.
Input:
Output:
The page number you need to reach today to achieve goal 1 or 2. It will also show you when you can be expected to finish reading, and the amount of pages you will read today.
When you finish reading for the day, you will input the number of the page you finished reading, so that the app knows on which page you will start tomorrow.***
The new day will not turn over automatically, because sometimes you might read past 00:00, and still want the page to count for the previous day.
When you are ahead of schedule:
The reverse will happen if you’re behind schedule.
(Optional)
Keep a log of all reading days, with the pages to be on for each day, with the ability to save it with date of creation as a text file. The log will show the expected finish day, as well as the pages-per-day count.
Notes:
*In omnibuses, the second book might start on page 300. If the app assumes that 1 is always the starting point, then it will tell you that you have already read a certain amount of the book, even though you’re only interested in the portion you specified. This is also important when a book starts on page 5.
** You can change what the goal will be at any time, including which of the two goals (date or pages-per-day) you want to use.
***This as opposed to inputting the page you will read tomorrow, because that will conflict with the end of the book, since there won’t be any more pages to read, and the app would think that you would still have one page left to read; the last page.
If nothing else, thanks for at least reading the post in full.
The core functionality of the app is as follows.
Input:
- Book title
- Name author
- Book series name (optional)
- Number of first page you will read*
- Number of last page you will read
- Days “off” (when you can’t/won’t read)
- Also input, based on what you want to achieve**:
- pages-per-day to read, or;
- expected date when you finish reading the book.
Output:
The page number you need to reach today to achieve goal 1 or 2. It will also show you when you can be expected to finish reading, and the amount of pages you will read today.
When you finish reading for the day, you will input the number of the page you finished reading, so that the app knows on which page you will start tomorrow.***
The new day will not turn over automatically, because sometimes you might read past 00:00, and still want the page to count for the previous day.
When you are ahead of schedule:
- if you chose a finish date, then the number of pages you have to read will lower (lower average pages to read to finish on time);
- If you chose an amount of pages per day to read, then the date will move forward (closer to the present) based on how much you’ve read ahead
The reverse will happen if you’re behind schedule.
(Optional)
Keep a log of all reading days, with the pages to be on for each day, with the ability to save it with date of creation as a text file. The log will show the expected finish day, as well as the pages-per-day count.
Notes:
*In omnibuses, the second book might start on page 300. If the app assumes that 1 is always the starting point, then it will tell you that you have already read a certain amount of the book, even though you’re only interested in the portion you specified. This is also important when a book starts on page 5.
** You can change what the goal will be at any time, including which of the two goals (date or pages-per-day) you want to use.
***This as opposed to inputting the page you will read tomorrow, because that will conflict with the end of the book, since there won’t be any more pages to read, and the app would think that you would still have one page left to read; the last page.
If nothing else, thanks for at least reading the post in full.
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