Bible Reading Plans Not Consistent in Length

Does anyone else have the problem of setting up a Bible reading plan only to find you are reading 1000 verses one day and 200 the next? Is there any way to get the Bible reading plan to be more consistent with length? I realize it is trying not to cut off stories and like pericopes, but it would be great to have the option of evening it out somewhat.

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Ron

I've noticed that too...and I'm not sure it is necessarily a pericope/story concession. It sometimes seems very random. Some days are very long and others are very short...and once or twice it has cut the reading off right in the middle of a chapter at a very random place. This is on a "read the Bible in one year" plan.

Dave Hooton

Please provide an example where this occurs.

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/163443#Comment_163443

Please provide an example where this occurs.

I have a "Read NKJV in one year" plan.

On Jan 10, it had me read Gen 27-30 (146 verses). On Jan 11, it had me read Gen 31 (55 verses).

On May 4, it had me read 1 Chron 7 (40 verses). On May 5, it had me read 1 Chron 8-11 (146 verses).

May 21 - 2Chr35-36 & Ezr1 (61vv); May 22 - Ezr2-5 (124vv); May 23 - Ezr6-8 (86vv); May 24 - Ezr9-10 (59vv); May 25 - Neh1-5 (105vv); May 26 - Neh6-7 (92vv); May 27 - Neh8-9 (56vv); May 28 - Neh10-12 (122vv); May 29 - Neh13 (31vv); May 30 - Esther1-10 (177vv); May 31 - Job1-2 (35vv)

There has to be a better way to break up the reading rather than having 100-145 verse swings from day to day. Why not break at pericope points, rather than chapter breaks only? Though even if they stick with full chapters, it can still be divided up more consistently. Look at May 28-31...122 to 31 to 177 to 35.

Looking through the whole calendar, there are only 4 or 5 times where it breaks in the middle of a chapter and it is only in cases where there is a really long pericope. For example, July 19 is Prov18-22:16 and July 20 is Prov 22:16-24:22 which is one long pericope. So the reading plan does seem "pericope aware" but doesn't seem to take much advantage of that awareness.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/163767#Comment_163767

I compared ESV and NKJV Plans for 1 year, starting at the same time, and found variances in daily readings but that generally:

they were at the same place at the end of a month
each book started/finished at the same time

The daily variances are hard to explain eg. James 1-3 (NKJV) vs 1-5 (ESV) whilst both Plans end at 1 Pe 2 the next day!

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/163806#Comment_163806

Odd indeed. It is obviously not a critical issue--at least to me--but it would be nice to average closer to 100 verses a day instead of 30 one day and 170 the next, etc. In this case too, two days totals 200 verses, 100 + 100 makes more sense than 30 + 170. That seems to be what is happening in your example. Over the course of a month or a book, the same amount of reading is being accomplished...but sometimes it is being divided up very unevenly.

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/164065#Comment_164065

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