How the pages are shared out
The planner counts the pages left to read, from your start page to page 604, plus 604 for every extra complete reading, and spreads them over your days in whole pages so that no day has more than one page more than another. Larger days come first. Each day shows the first and last page to read and the juz they fall in. When you split by prayer, the day’s pages are divided the same way into five readings, after Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha.
Which mushaf the page numbers fit
The page numbers are those of the standard Madinah mushaf printed by the King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex: 604 pages of 15 lines, with each juz starting at the top of a page. Juz 1 starts on page 1, juz 2 on page 22, and from there each juz starts on page 20n + 2 except juz 7 (page 121) and juz 11 (page 201). We read these start pages from the Quran.com page data published by the Quran Foundation. Mushafs printed in South Asia, North Africa and elsewhere often have a different number of pages, so their page numbers will not match.
Planning a khatm in Ramadan
Choose Within Ramadan and the planner uses the expected first and last day of the coming Ramadan from the Umm al-Qura calendar, 29 or 30 days. If Ramadan has already started, it plans from today until the expected end. The real start and end depend on the moon-sighting announcement in your country, so check the plan when Ramadan is announced and change the dates if needed. For two or three readings during the month, change the number of complete readings.
Catching up after missed days
If you fall behind, you do not need to start over. Enter the page you have reached as the start page, set today as the start date and keep the same finish date: the planner spreads the remaining pages over the days you have left. The pages per day go up a little, and the table shows exactly where each day starts. Many readers also keep a set number of pages a day; enter enough days to see what that pace means for the finish date.
What this planner is, and is not
This is a simple arithmetic tool for organising your own reading. It does not show or recite any Quran text and does not give rulings on how, when or how much to read; for those questions ask a scholar, teacher or your local mosque. Plans with more days than pages are not offered, since every day should have at least one page; at one page a day a full reading takes 604 days.