How to set reading goals in the Books app on iPad

On iPad, the Books app helps you keep track of how many minutes you read each 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 receive encouragement to reach your goals.

The default yearly reading goal is three books, and you can count PDFs toward your goal, too. Finished books appear below Books Read This Year.

Note: Apple Books isn’t available in all countries or regions.

Change your daily reading goal

Your daily reading goal is set to 5 minutes per day unless you customize it. Adjust it to how many minutes you want to read.

1. Open the Books app on your iPad.
2. Tap Home. Then tap the reading goals button at the top right of the screen.
3. Tap the reading goal timer, then tap Adjust Goal.

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

4. Slide the counter up or down to set the minutes per day that you want to read.
5. Tap the Close button.

Change your yearly reading goal

When you finish reading a book, its cover shows up below Books Read This Year. Your yearly reading goal starts at three books per year, but you can increase or decrease it depending on how many books you want to finish.

1. Open the Books app on your iPad.
2. Tap Home. Then tap the reading goals button at the top right of the screen.
3. Tap a book cover or a cover placeholder. Tap Adjust Goal.
4. Slide the counter up or down to set the books per year that you want to read. Then tap the Close button.

Quick tip: To change a book’s status in your library to finished, tap the More button under a book or audiobook cover and then tap Mark as Finished.

Turn on coaching notifications

Books can encourage and nudge you toward your reading goals, with notifications you can turn on or off.

1. Open the Books app on your iPad.
2. Tap Home. Tap your account button in the top-right corner of the screen.
3. Tap Notifications, then turn on Coaching.
4. Tap the Close button.

Turn off reading goals notifications

You get notifications from Books when you achieve a reading goal or set a reading streak, though you can turn these notifications off or on.

1. Open the Books app on your iPad.
2. Tap Home. Tap your account button in the top-right corner of the screen.
3. Tap Notifications, then turn off Goal Completion.
4. Tap the Close button.

Turn off reading goals

1. Open the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Apps, tap Books, and then turn off Reading Goals.

Turning off Reading Goals hides the reading indicators in the Home tab and stops reading notifications.

Clear reading data

You can clear your reading data, including reading goals, reading streaks, and time spent reading.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Apps and tap Books. Then tap Clear Reading Goals Data.

See also

• Read books in the Books app on iPad
• Read PDFs in the Books app on iPad