Book reading time calculator

I use this for reading on my Kindle, that's why I use those "location" things.

Interactive use

To use the calculator in interactive mode, just run the bookLocations.py file

python bookLocations.py

Using command line arguments

python booklocations.py file locationsPerPage readingTimePerPage

where

• file is a text file containing the info of the books you want calulated.
• locationPerPage is how many locations there are per page turn on the Kindle
• readingTimePerPage is how fast you read one page on the kindle in seconds

So for example I would run

python booklocations.py books.txt 10 67

If you don't include locationPerPage and readingTimePerPage, you will be prompted. Set them to 1 if not important.

The output will be a text file in a subfolder called Calculated books. You can change this in one of the first lines of the code.

Formatting the text file

• One book per line.
• # at start of line indicate comments.
• title;useLocation;totalPages;totalLocations;days
  • title is the title of the book
  • useLocation is whether you're using locations from the kindle or pages. Set True for location and False for pages.
  • totalPages is the amount of pages that there would be in a printed version of the book. I get these from GoodReads.
  • totalLocations is the total amount of locations in the kindle book. If you're using useLocation set to False, just write the totalPages here.
  • days is the amount of days you'd like to complete the book in.

An example file is included.