Tracking Your Reading Progress
Keep track of what you’re reading, update your progress, and see your reading history all in one place.
Reading Statuses
Section titled “Reading Statuses”Every book in your collection has a reading status:
| Status | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Want to Read | On your list but not started yet |
| Reading | You’re actively reading this book |
| Paused | You’ve started but set it aside for now |
| Finished | You’ve finished reading |
Starting a Book
Section titled “Starting a Book”- Open the book’s detail page
- Tap Start Reading (or Want to Read if you’re saving it for later)
- The book appears in My Books
Updating Your Progress
Section titled “Updating Your Progress”When you finish a reading session, just enter the page you’re on — Agathos does the math for you:
- Tap the book’s cover in Currently Reading on your home page (or open it from My Books)
- The update screen asks “What page are you on?” — type the page number in front of you
- Agathos shows how many pages you read this session and updates your percentage automatically
- Tap Update to page … to save
A few extras in the same screen:
- Wrong page count? Tap the total (the “of … pages” number) to correct it — helpful when your edition differs from the listed one.
- Reading an ebook or audiobook? Tap the % switch to track by percentage instead of pages.
Viewing Your Books
Section titled “Viewing Your Books”Open My Books to see all your books. Use the status filter to narrow to:
- Reading — What you’re actively reading
- Paused — Books you’ve set aside
- Finished — Books you’ve finished
- Want to Read — Your reading wishlist
Marking a Book as Finished
Section titled “Marking a Book as Finished”There are two ways to finish a book:
- Type the last page. When your entered page reaches the end of the book, the update button becomes Finish book — one tap finishes it. (If you’re re-reading and don’t want to finish it, use or just save progress underneath.)
- Tap Finished in the status row of the update screen at any point.
Either way the book moves to your Finished filter, and Agathos asks whether you’d recommend the book to your library members — that part is entirely optional.
Finishing a book may also update your progress in any active reading plans you’ve joined.
Changing a Book’s Status
Section titled “Changing a Book’s Status”The update screen’s status row gives you Finished and Paused in one tap. Under More you’ll also find:
- Want to Read — moves the book back to your wishlist
- Reset to Not Started — removes the book from your reading list and deletes your progress for it. Agathos asks you to confirm first, since this can’t be undone.
Your Reading Journey
Section titled “Your Reading Journey”Everything you track builds your Reading Journey — a personal timeline of what you read and when:
- Open it by tapping the streak chip on your home page, or Reading Journey below the search bar on My Books (next to Sharing and Recommendations).
- Pick a year (or All years) to see books finished, pages read, recommendations, and your current streak.
- The timeline shows each book you finished — with your reading time, page count, and your review if you wrote one — plus the books you started, month by month. Milestones (your 5th, 10th, 15th book…) appear along the way.
- Your reading rhythm lights up every day you read — the more pages, the brighter the dot. (Years from before day-tracking began show books per month instead.)
Your Journey is private to you. Only the things you already share — like recommendations — are visible to other members.
How Your Reading Status Is Shared
Section titled “How Your Reading Status Is Shared”When you update a book’s status, you’re sending a small social signal to other members of your libraries. On any book’s detail page, the In your community section starts with Add your recommendation (or Recommended once you’ve shared yours), then shows community activity:
- Recommended by — members who recommended the book (with their reviews)
- Want to read — members who added it to their want-to-read list
- Reading — members currently reading it
- Finished — members who have finished it
Each activity row shows a short stack of member avatars; tap a row to see the full list. The row matching your own status is marked with a small You chip. Library admins can also see aggregate counts of which books their members want to read, so they know what to add to the library next. If you have a book on your want-to-read list and your library stocks it, you’ll get a one-time notification letting you know it’s available to borrow.
If you’d rather not appear in those rows, your privacy setting in Settings → Privacy controls whether your name is visible to other members. The setting protects you from other members but not from the admins of the libraries you’ve joined — admins always see the activity in their own library.
- Your reading streak (consecutive days with any reading activity) appears on your home page — tap it to open your Reading Journey
- Finished books count toward library reading challenges automatically
- You can change a book’s status at any time — even move a finished book back to “Currently Reading”
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Section titled “Still Need Help?”If you have questions about tracking your reading, contact support.