# Tracking reading with multiple books

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tracking-reading-with-multiple-books/1463>\
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**Created:** [October 20, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tracking-reading-with-multiple-books/1463 "2013-10-20T09:27:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![aamaras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@aamaras](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aamaras)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tracking-reading-with-multiple-books/1463/1 "2013-10-20T09:27:53Z")

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Has anyone come up with a good way to track reading progress when you have  
multiple books on the go at once?

Simply tracking page numbers doesn’t work unless you have one goal per book  
(impractical). Even tracking the sum of page numbers gets iffy when you  
throw ebooks into the mix, since kindle locations don’t map 1:1 to page  
numbers and not many kindle books have “real page numbers”.

The obvious answer is to track time spent reading, but this rubs against  
the grain for me - I don’t want to turn reading into another block in my  
schedule, rather make sure that I fit some book-reading somewhere in my  
day. And tracking time spent will encourage one block of reading per day  
rather than several shorter sessions - this seems undesirable to me.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Strick\_van\_Lins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Alex\_Strick\_van\_Lins](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Alex_Strick_van_Lins)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/tracking-reading-with-multiple-books/1463/2 "2013-10-20T09:44:04Z")

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I think for that you need the 0 as odometer resets. “odom” in the custom  
goal settings. That should solve the problem. Either that in beeminder, or  
use something like Goodreads to track your reading alongside their ‘yearly  
challenge’. I pair up goodreads with beeminder to keep me honest.

On 20 October 2013 11:27, Aaron Maras [aaronmaras@gmail.com](mailto:aaronmaras@gmail.com) wrote:

> Has anyone come up with a good way to track reading progress when you have  
> multiple books on the go at once?
> 
> Simply tracking page numbers doesn’t work unless you have one goal per  
> book (impractical). Even tracking the sum of page numbers gets iffy when  
> you throw ebooks into the mix, since kindle locations don’t map 1:1 to page  
> numbers and not many kindle books have “real page numbers”.
> 
> The obvious answer is to track time spent reading, but this rubs against  
> the grain for me - I don’t want to turn reading into another block in my  
> schedule, rather make sure that I fit some book-reading somewhere in my  
> day. And tracking time spent will encourage one block of reading per day  
> rather than several shorter sessions - this seems undesirable to me.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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