# Does Goodreads have a way to track how many pages you’ve read? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883 "2020-07-20T23:55:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/1 "2020-07-20T23:55:42Z")
I’m sure there’s got to be a way, but I sure can’t find it. I’m doing a 52 books reading challenge for 2020 and many of the books I’m reading are lengthy tomes. I’d love to see my stats show not only how many books I’ve read for 2020 but also my number of pages. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/2 "2020-07-21T00:15:18Z")
I have not seen one. It also seems like it would be prone to error unless you were very careful with tracking that the edition and format matched the book you marked as read. Page counts can vary between editions and even within the same edition for those offered in different printed formats. For ebook formats other than pdf, the reader program greatly impacts the page count. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/3 "2020-07-21T02:41:57Z")
If the book is in your currently-reading shelf, you should be able to click on the book, scroll down a little, and fill out the “Progress” fields. For ebooks, this will say “I am \_\_\_% done”. For print books, it should have a “page \_\_ out of \_\_” format. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/4 "2020-07-21T16:59:00Z")
Oh, I know I can enter my pages or percentages for an individual book. Next year, I’ll make my own spreadsheet with a cumulative page count for the year. Just have to figure out a way to estimate for ebooks, I’m trying not to count pages that aren’t read, introductions or indexes for example ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/5 "2020-07-21T19:40:51Z")
Wait, if it’s a “challenge”, the goal is to read 52 books, right? (Is someone keeping track of stats, who’ll care how many pages you’ve read?) Or maybe it’s a competition, I’m not familiar with the challenge. Will someone, like your local book group, care who completed the challenge AND read the most? > [@dalej42](#): > > I’d love to see my stats show not only how many books I’ve read for 2020 but also my number of pages. Ah, that’s the part that made me think you’re competing… ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/6 "2020-07-21T21:36:18Z")
I usually add up my pages read for each book in the Goodreads challenge, then look at the range and average at the end of the year. What it show is that the doorstops balance out the novellas pretty well, usually for an average of 267 pages/book. ---
**Author:** ![GMANCANADA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gmancanada/32/2837_2.png) [@GMANCANADA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GMANCANADA)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-goodreads-have-a-way-to-track-how-many-pages-you-ve-read/915883/7 "2020-07-22T00:39:53Z")
I’ve used Goodreads for a while and I’ve never seen it, and I agree with @DinoR - the pages meaningless so why would they ever track it ? I own the same Dean Koontz book as a hardcover, a paperback and recently bought it as part of part of a compilation and the page counts are _totally_ different. For some books add in a forward for a new edition, an afterward etc and then the illustrated edition or large print for those of us with fading eyes and it just makes it worse. I’ve never actually noticed GR even track the edition, although I’ve seen reviewers add it into their reviews.