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

Every book in My Books has a reading status:

Status	What It Means
Not started	No status yet — where every book begins
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

From your home page:

In Currently reading, tap the Start reading card — the dashed card at the end of the row, or the only card there if you haven’t started anything yet
Pick a book from Recently added, Want to read, New in your libraries, or Pick up where you left off, or search by title or ISBN
Tap Start next to a search result, or open a book and tap Start reading
The book appears in Currently reading

Not on Agathos yet? Tap Add a new book. Agathos takes you to Add books, and as soon as the book is added it’s marked as reading and you’re back on your home page. A book that needs catalog review first can be started once it’s approved.

From a book’s page: open its reading status (it reads Not started until you pick one) and choose Reading — or Want to read if you’re saving it for later.

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 in Currently reading on your home page (its cover, title or progress bar), 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

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 — Books you want to read

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 the screen shows You finished with the book’s title and page count. Tap Recommend it if you’d like to recommend the book to your library members — that part is entirely optional — or Done to close.

You can also finish a book from the reading status menu on its page or on its row in My Books — choose Finished, and the same You finished screen appears.

If a book reaches 100% but is still marked as reading, its card on Home says Mark finished — tap it, then Finish book.

Finishing a book may also update your progress in any active reading plans you’ve joined.

Finished it a while ago?

You can mark a book Finished even if you never tracked it in Agathos — handy for cataloging books you read years ago. When you do, Agathos asks when you finished it. The date starts at today, so if you just put the book down, one tap confirms it. Pick an earlier date and the book counts toward that year in your Reading Journey instead of this one. Books filed under a past date don’t affect your reading streak — they’re part of your history, not today’s reading.

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 — sets the book aside to read later
Reset to not started — removes the book from your reading and deletes your progress for it. Agathos asks you to confirm first, since this can’t be undone.

You can also change the status from the reading status menu on a book’s page or on its row in My Books. The menu lists all five statuses, with a check beside the one the book has now. Choosing Not started takes the book off your reading and deletes its progress — and its finish date, if you finished it. If there’s any progress or a finish date to lose, Agathos asks you to confirm first, since this can’t be undone.

Your Reading Journey

Everything you track builds your Reading Journey — a personal timeline of what you read and when:

Open it from My Books → Journey (the second link at the top of My Books), by tapping this year’s count on My Books (for example Read in 2026), or by tapping the streak chip on your home page.
Pick a year (or All years) to see books finished, pages read, reading days, and your best 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

When you update a book’s status, you’re sending a small social signal to other members of your libraries — and showing them who to talk to about the book. On any book’s detail page, the In your community section opens with a sentence that names people, such as “Anna, Greg and 2 others have read this · 3 recommend it.” Below it you’ll find:

Recommendations — up to two members’ recommendations with their reviews, and See all for the rest
Add your recommendation (or Recommended once you’ve shared yours)
Finished — members who have finished it, with when
Reading now — members reading it, with how far along they are
Want to read — members who marked it Want to read

Each group shows members’ faces and first names; tap a group to see everyone in it. When your own status puts you in a group, you appear first, as You. 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’ve marked a book Want to read 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.

Tips

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 Reading

Still Need Help?

If you have questions about tracking your reading, contact support.