A sequentially backwards numbering method in a story book to easily and exactly configure how many pages are left to be read in the story. This system reverses the page numbers so that the highest number of the page count becomes the first number of the first page of the first chapter while the lowest number of the page count becomes the last number of the last story line page in the last chapter. At any given time, the reader will know the number of pages left to be read because each sequentially declining number denotes the number of pages left to finish reading the book.