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 the hardest ones take up to about three times as long, 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
- The dated plan is on the web and it is part of membership. The iPhone app orders the queue too, and shows each book's length in nights at your pace, but not the chained start and finish dates.
- It orders your own queue. It is not a lookup of what order a book series should be read in.
- A book with no word count gets no dates and does not push the books after it. Nothing is dated until you have a logged pace.
- 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, the hardest up to about three times as long.