ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-01-06
Plan the order of your next books
Drag the books you plan to read next into the order you want them and ReadingRate dates the whole queue: each book gets a projected start and finish, chained one after another from the day your current book ends. The estimates use your own words-per-day and stretch for difficult books and shrink for easy ones. Reorder the queue and every date moves with it.
Available on web.
A to-read list is a pile. An ordered queue with dates attached is a plan, and the difference shows up the moment you see that the eight-hundred-page one pushes everything else into the spring.
The difficulty adjustment is what stops the arithmetic being naive. An easy book is read about a fifth faster than your average and a hard one up to half again slower, because that is how reading actually goes, and a plan built on a flat pace is wrong in both directions at once.
Seeing the dates tends to change the order. That is the point of showing them.
What it can't do
- This is on the web and it is part of membership. The iOS app has a placeholder screen only.
- It orders your own queue. It is not a lookup of what order a book series should be read in.
- Books with no word count are assumed to be fifty thousand words, which is wrong for both a novella and a doorstop.
- The chain assumes you read one book at a time, in order, starting when the last one ends. Reading two at once makes every date optimistic.
- It cannot know which of these you will abandon, and abandoning one is the usual reason a plan like this stops being true.
Questions people ask
- Can I plan what order to read my books in?
- Yes, on the web with a membership. Drag your next books into order and each gets a projected start and finish date, chained from when your current book ends and adjusted for each book's difficulty.
- How does ReadingRate know how long a book will take me?
- It uses your own logged words per day, scaled by the book's word count and difficulty score — easier books about a fifth faster, harder ones up to half again slower.