How many pages a day: a realistic number
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Reading plans rarely fail for lack of will. They fail because the starting number was a dream. Better to start from what you actually do.
Measure first
For a week, note how many pages you read without forcing it. That number, or a little more, is your base. It depends on the book: ten pages of a legal treatise are not ten pages of a novel.
Leave some slack
Aim for a date a bit later than the arithmetic gives. Skipped days aren't failures, they are days you had planned for. A plan holds when it has slack.
Recalculate without judging yourself
If you've fallen behind, today's figure rises a little. If you're ahead, it drops. Qimtar redoes this sum every sitting: it doesn't reproach you, it only tells you where you stand.