Notch · Learning
Track your reading goal on iPhone. Log each book finished, build toward 12, 24, or 52 books, and see your total without a streak reset. Free to download.
A reading goal sounds simple: finish X books this year. You set a number, downloaded a habit tracker, and started logging daily reading sessions. The first month was good. Then you hit a dense 600-page book that took three weeks, and somewhere in the middle you missed a day.
The streak broke. But you were still reading. You were 200 pages deep into a book you hadn't put down. The habit tracker had no concept of that — it only knew you hadn't opened the app and marked a completion.
Reading goals are about books finished, not reading sessions logged. Whether you blitz through a short novel in two days or spend a month on a long nonfiction book, what matters is whether the book count is moving toward your target.
A reading goal tracker should show 7 of 24 books — not a broken streak from the week you were too deep in a chapter to remember to tap a button.
Most readers set a yearly goal between 12 and 52 books, averaging roughly 1 to 4 books per month.
A reading goal ends when you finish the last book. "Read 24 books this year" ends at 24. Whether you read 3 books in January and nothing in February, or one per month all year: the count is what matters. A habit tracker measuring daily check-ins can't tell you whether you're on pace to reach 24.
When a streak tracker resets after a travel week, the counter goes to zero. The 14 books already finished don't appear prominently. The app shows a failure state when you're more than halfway to your goal.
Reading 2 books per month puts you at 24 in a year. Read 4 in one month and none the next: the total stays the same.
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