I also like the weekly-update approach because daily reporting can become noise. A practical tweak that helped me: I keep two parallel goals, one for total pages and one for consistency (days read per week), so I don’t burn out when a text suddenly gets harder.

For finding intermediate web-fiction material, I’ve been using resources and reading lists on https://tuotuoshu.com and then logging progress against a fixed character-to-page ratio, similar to what you suggested. Thanks for sharing such a concrete system.

I have been setting up some goals for 3 years, trying hard to find goals which are relevant, challenging and focused into the right things.
For this year (2017) my goal was to read 1 book per month. 12 months, 12 books. Starting January, I just finished my very first book, which took me 3 months to read. So I thought that was going to be incredibly difficult.
But as usual, setting up goals help so much. Reading 8 to 10 pages per day, I was able to finish my first book within the month.
Now in June, I already read a book in 15 days, so I am starting to feel that the original goal is now too low, and I’m going to make a mid-year goal planning again.

At the same time, I have increased the difficulty of the books that I read, and I am choosing books with more pages as well.
At my level, I think setting up goals in terms of number of books / months is a good metric. Setting up daily goals is good too (I target 10 to 20 pages per day now), but it also depends a lot on every day. There are days I only have time to read 10, whereas some days I can read 20.
I also keep track of how many new words I learn per week. Using Pleco. My average in the last 3 years is 70 words per week, which is probably good, but not amazing. But the goal itself is not to add more words to Pleco, rather it is to keep reading more, and adding new words to Pleco is just a consequence of reading more.

Great, well done! See you again next round? 🙂

Congrats for your impressive sprint, Olle! It’s been fun to watch your stats go up and up. And though I’d downgraded my own ambition level from 300 to 200 pages for January, I’m satisfied with my 248 page score – mostly from a single novel (鬼吹灯). Thanks again for the inspiration!

Oops – now I see it. I posted in the wrong place last time. Sorry about that, Jonny in Beijing!

Hmm, my previous comment didn’t post! It’s been good so far. I’m more than halfway through The Hobbit now, much more than at the pace I was before the challenge.

Great, well done! I finished my reading today as well, just in time. I also find that a public commitment helps me to focus.

How’s it going? Just a few hours left!