Set reading goals in Books on iPad

The Books app helps you keep track of how many minutes you read every day, and how many books and audiobooks you finish each year. You can customize your goals to spend more time reading, set new reading streaks, and share your achievements with friends.

The Reading Goals section in Reading Now. The reading counter shows that 10 minutes of a 20-minute goal have been completed. Below the counter is a Keep Reading button, and circles that show the days of the week, Sunday through Saturday. The circles for Sunday and Monday are blue, indicating the reading goal was achieved. The circle for Tuesday is outlined half way around the circle, indicating the progress for that day. The circles for Wednesday through Saturday are gray. The middle of the screen shows Books Read This Year. Three squares, indicate a reading goal of three books. A book cover fills one square, indicating one read book for the year.

Change your daily reading goal

You can adjust your daily reading goal depending on how many minutes you want to read per day. If you don’t customize your daily reading goal, it’s set to five minutes per day.

Tap Reading Now, then swipe down to Reading Goals.
Tap Today’s Reading, then tap Adjust Goal.
Slide the counter up or down to set the minutes per day that you want to read.

When you reach your daily reading goal, you receive a notification from Books; tap it to get more details about your achievement, or send your achievement to friends.

To make sure you receive a notification when you reach your daily reading goal, go to Settings > Notifications > Books, then turn on Allow Notifications.

Note: To count PDFs toward your reading goal, go to Settings > Books, then turn on Include PDFs.

Change your yearly reading goal

After you finish reading a book or audiobook in Books, the Books Read This Year collection appears below Reading Goals. The default yearly reading goal is three books per year, but you can increase or decrease your goal depending on how many books you want to finish.

Tap Reading Now, then swipe down to Books Read This Year.
Tap a placeholder square, or a book cover, then tap Adjust Goal.
Slide the counter up or down to set the books per year that you want to read.

When you reach your yearly reading goal, you receive a notification from Books; tap it to get more details about your achievement, or send your achievement to friends.

See your reading streaks and records

Books lets you know how many days in a row you reach your daily reading goal and notifies you when you set a record.

To view your current reading streak and record, tap the Reading Now tab, then swipe down to Reading Goals.

Turn on coaching

You can turn on coaching to receive encouragement and nudges to help you reach your reading goals.

Tap Reading Now, then tap your account in the top-right corner.
Tap Notifications, then turn on Coaching.

Turn off reading goals notifications

You can stop receiving notifications when you achieve a reading goal or set a reading streak.

Tap Reading Now, then tap your account in the top-right corner.
Tap Notifications, then turn off Goal Completion.

Turn off reading goals

Go to Settings > Books > then turn off Reading Goals. When Reading Goals is turned off, the reading indicators in Reading Now are hidden and you don’t receive reading notifications.

Clear reading data

To clear your reading data, such as time spent reading and reading streaks, go to Settings > Books > then tap Clear Reading Goals Data.

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