diff --git a/index/index-reverse/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/index/reverse/ReverseIndexParameters.java b/index/index-reverse/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/index/reverse/ReverseIndexParameters.java
index 1ee6578c..c1caaa0c 100644
--- a/index/index-reverse/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/index/reverse/ReverseIndexParameters.java
+++ b/index/index-reverse/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/index/reverse/ReverseIndexParameters.java
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 package nu.marginalia.index.reverse;
 
+import nu.marginalia.btree.model.BTreeBlockSize;
 import nu.marginalia.btree.model.BTreeContext;
 
 class ReverseIndexParameters {
     public static final int ENTRY_SIZE = 2;
 
-    public static final BTreeContext bTreeContext = new BTreeContext(5, ENTRY_SIZE, 8);
+    // This is the byte size per index page on disk, the data pages are twice as large due to ENTRY_SIZE = 2.
+    //
+    // Given a hardware limit of 4k reads, 2k block size should be optimal.
+    public static final BTreeBlockSize blockSize = BTreeBlockSize.BS_2048;
+
+
+    public static final BTreeContext bTreeContext = new BTreeContext(5, ENTRY_SIZE, blockSize);
 }
diff --git a/libraries/btree/readme.md b/libraries/btree/readme.md
index f2dbf10f..fc6d101f 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/readme.md
+++ b/libraries/btree/readme.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ read with a [BTreeReader](src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeReader.java).
 BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(
         4,  // num layers max
         1,  // entry size
-        8); // block size bits, in practice this should be 8
+        BTreeBlockSize.BS_4096); // page size
 
 // Allocate a memory area to work in, see the array library for how to do this with files
 LongArray array = LongArray.allocate(8192);
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeDogEar.java b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeDogEar.java
index c3e1e345..e3b84736 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeDogEar.java
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeDogEar.java
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ class BTreeDogEar {
 
         if (header.numEntries() > 3) {
             var sentinelSlice = base.range(
-                    (long) header.numEntries() * ctx.entrySize() - 3,
-                    (long) header.numEntries() * ctx.entrySize());
+                    (long) header.numEntries() * ctx.entrySize - 3,
+                    (long) header.numEntries() * ctx.entrySize);
             sentinelSlice.set(0, 4L);
             sentinelSlice.set(1, 5L);
             sentinelSlice.set(2, 1L);
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeReader.java b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeReader.java
index 47e6e69b..456e9b39 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeReader.java
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeReader.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ public class BTreeReader {
         this.ctx = ctx;
         this.header = readHeader(file, offset);
 
-        dataBlockEnd = (long) ctx.entrySize() * header.numEntries();
+        dataBlockEnd = (long) ctx.entrySize * header.numEntries();
         index = file.range(header.indexOffsetLongs(), header.dataOffsetLongs());
         data = file.range(header.dataOffsetLongs(), header.dataOffsetLongs() + dataBlockEnd);
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ public class BTreeReader {
         long searchStart = 0;
         for (int i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
             long key = keys[i];
-            searchStart = data.binarySearchN(ctx.entrySize(), key, searchStart, data.size);
+            searchStart = data.binarySearchN(ctx.entrySize, key, searchStart, data.size);
             if (searchStart < 0) {
                 searchStart = LongArraySearch.decodeSearchMiss(searchStart);
             }
@@ -218,11 +218,11 @@ public class BTreeReader {
 
             final long searchStart = layerOffsets[layer] + offset;
 
-            final long nextLayerOffset = (int) index.binarySearchUpperBound(key, searchStart, searchStart + ctx.blockSizeWords()) - searchStart;
+            final long nextLayerOffset = (int) index.binarySearchUpperBound(key, searchStart, searchStart + ctx.pageSize()) - searchStart;
 
             layer --;
             boundary = index.get(searchStart + nextLayerOffset);
-            offset = ctx.blockSizeWords() * (offset + nextLayerOffset);
+            offset = ctx.pageSize() * (offset + nextLayerOffset);
 
             return true;
         }
@@ -249,17 +249,17 @@ public class BTreeReader {
                 throw new IllegalStateException("Looking for data in an index layer");
             }
 
-            long searchStart = offset * ctx.entrySize();
-            long remainingTotal = dataBlockEnd - offset * ctx.entrySize();
+            long searchStart = offset * ctx.entrySize;
+            long remainingTotal = dataBlockEnd - offset * ctx.entrySize;
             long remainingBlock;
 
             remainingBlock = (layerOffsets.length == 0)
                     ? remainingTotal
-                    : (long) ctx.blockSizeWords() * ctx.entrySize();
+                    : (long) ctx.pageSize() * ctx.entrySize;
 
             long searchEnd = searchStart + (int) min(remainingTotal, remainingBlock);
 
-            return data.binarySearchN(ctx.entrySize(), key, searchStart, searchEnd);
+            return data.binarySearchN(ctx.entrySize, key, searchStart, searchEnd);
         }
 
         public void retainData(LongQueryBuffer buffer) {
@@ -269,15 +269,15 @@ public class BTreeReader {
                 buffer.retainAndAdvance();
 
                 if (buffer.hasMore() && buffer.currentValue() <= boundary) {
-                    long blockBase = offset * ctx.entrySize();
+                    long blockBase = offset * ctx.entrySize;
                     long relOffset = dataOffset - blockBase;
 
                     long remainingTotal = dataBlockEnd - dataOffset;
-                    long remainingBlock = ctx.blockSizeWords() - relOffset;
+                    long remainingBlock = ctx.pageSize() - relOffset;
 
                     long searchEnd = dataOffset + (int) min(remainingTotal, remainingBlock);
 
-                    data.range(dataOffset, searchEnd).retainN(buffer, ctx.entrySize(), boundary);
+                    data.range(dataOffset, searchEnd).retainN(buffer, ctx.entrySize, boundary);
                 }
             }
             else {
@@ -293,15 +293,15 @@ public class BTreeReader {
                 buffer.rejectAndAdvance();
 
                 if (buffer.hasMore() && buffer.currentValue() <= boundary) {
-                    long blockBase = offset * ctx.entrySize();
+                    long blockBase = offset * ctx.entrySize;
                     long relOffset = dataOffset - blockBase;
 
                     long remainingTotal = dataBlockEnd - dataOffset;
-                    long remainingBlock = ctx.blockSizeWords() - relOffset;
+                    long remainingBlock = ctx.pageSize() - relOffset;
 
                     long searchEnd = dataOffset + (int) min(remainingTotal, remainingBlock);
 
-                    data.range(dataOffset, searchEnd).rejectN(buffer, ctx.entrySize(), boundary);
+                    data.range(dataOffset, searchEnd).rejectN(buffer, ctx.entrySize, boundary);
                 }
             }
             else {
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriter.java b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriter.java
index a5512e03..f43583f3 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriter.java
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriter.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
         writeHeader(header, map, offset);
 
         final long startRange = header.dataOffsetLongs();
-        final long endRange = startRange + (long) numEntries * ctx.entrySize();
+        final long endRange = startRange + (long) numEntries * ctx.entrySize;
 
         var slice = map.range(startRange, endRange);
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
              * a sorted list, there needs to be padding between the header and the index
              * in order to get aligned blocks
              */
-            padding = (int) (ctx.blockSizeWords() - ((offset + BTreeHeader.BTreeHeaderSizeLongs) % ctx.blockSizeWords()));
+            padding = (int) (ctx.pageSize() - ((offset + BTreeHeader.BTreeHeaderSizeLongs) % ctx.pageSize()));
         }
         return padding;
     }
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
     private void writeIndex(BTreeHeader header) {
         var layerOffsets = header.getRelativeLayerOffsets(ctx);
 
-        long indexedDataStepSize = ctx.blockSizeWords();
+        long indexedDataStepSize = ctx.pageSize();
 
         /*  Index layer 0 indexes the data itself
             Index layer 1 indexes layer 0
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
             And so on
          */
         for (int layer = 0; layer < header.layers(); layer++,
-                indexedDataStepSize*=ctx.blockSizeWords()) {
+                indexedDataStepSize*=ctx.pageSize()) {
 
             writeIndexLayer(header, layerOffsets, indexedDataStepSize, layer);
         }
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
         final long dataOffsetBase = header.dataOffsetLongs();
 
         final long dataEntriesMax = header.numEntries();
-        final int entrySize = ctx.entrySize();
+        final int entrySize = ctx.entrySize;
 
         final long lastDataEntryOffset = indexedDataStepSize - 1;
 
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ public class BTreeWriter {
 
             final long trailerStart = indexOffsetBase + indexWord;
             final long trailerEnd = trailerStart
-                    + ctx.blockSizeWords()
-                    - (int) (indexWord % ctx.blockSizeWords());
+                    + ctx.pageSize()
+                    - (int) (indexWord % ctx.pageSize());
 
             if (trailerStart < trailerEnd) {
                 map.fill(trailerStart, trailerEnd, Long.MAX_VALUE);
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeBlockSize.java b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeBlockSize.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ecfb39bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeBlockSize.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package nu.marginalia.btree.model;
+
+public enum BTreeBlockSize {
+    BS_16(1),
+    BS_32(2),
+    BS_64(3),
+    BS_128(4),
+    BS_245(5),
+    BS_512(6),
+    BS_1024(7),
+    BS_2048(8),
+    BS_4096(9),
+    BS_8192(10);
+
+    // blockSizeBits can be viewed as the number of logical branches at each index layer.
+    // where 1 is the world's most over-engineered binary tree. In practice you want as many
+    // as possible while staying below the page size limit.
+    //
+    // The formula for converting between the blockSizeBits as used in BTreeContext, and
+    // the byte size on disk is (1<<blockSizeBits) * sizeof(long) [ * entrySize ]
+
+    final int blockSizeBits;
+
+
+    BTreeBlockSize(int blockSizeBits) {
+        this.blockSizeBits = blockSizeBits;
+    }
+
+    public static BTreeBlockSize fromBitCount(int blockSizeBits) {
+        for (var size : values()) {
+            if (size.blockSizeBits == blockSizeBits)
+                return size;
+        }
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeContext.java b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeContext.java
index 067aad70..f1d83fdf 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeContext.java
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/btree/model/BTreeContext.java
@@ -2,26 +2,37 @@ package nu.marginalia.btree.model;
 
 import nu.marginalia.btree.BTreeWriter;
 
-/**
- *
- * @param maxLayers         The maximum number of index layers
- * @param entrySize         The entry size, for size 1 the key is the data. For sizes larger than 1,
- *                          the data will be expected to sit in the successive position to the key
- *                          in the data layer
- * @param blockSizeBits     Bits per data block
- * @param blockSizeWords    Words per data block
- */
-public record BTreeContext(int maxLayers, int entrySize, int blockSizeBits, int blockSizeWords) {
+/** Specifies the parameters of a BTree. */
+public class BTreeContext {
+    public final int maxLayers;
+    public final int entrySize;
+    private final int blockSizeBits;
+    private final int pageSize;
 
+    // Below this number of data pages, a b-tree will not be constructed.
+    //
     // 8 pages is the breaking point where using a B-tree is actually advantageous
     // over just binary searching in a sorted list. Above 8 pages, binary search will
     // worst-case four page faults. A b-tree will incur three page faults up until
     // ~100k-200k entries with typical configurations.
-
     private static final int MIN_PAGES_FOR_BTREE = 8;
 
-    public BTreeContext(int maxLayers, int entrySize, int blockSizeBits) {
-        this(maxLayers, entrySize, blockSizeBits, 1 << blockSizeBits);
+    /**
+     * @param maxLayers         The maximum number of index layers
+     * @param entrySize         The entry size, for size 1 the key is the data. For sizes larger than 1,
+     *                          the data will be expected to sit in the successive position to the key
+     *                          in the data layer
+     * @param blockSize         Specifies the size of each index layer. The data layers' size will be entrySize times
+     *                          the blockSize. For on-disk BTrees ideal is anywhere below 4096b data size.
+     *                          When testing the BTree you probably want as small a value as you can get away
+     *                          with to reduce the need for RAM.
+     *
+     */
+    public BTreeContext(int maxLayers, int entrySize, BTreeBlockSize blockSize) {
+        this.maxLayers = maxLayers;
+        this.entrySize = entrySize;
+        this.blockSizeBits = blockSize.blockSizeBits;
+        this.pageSize = 1 << blockSizeBits;
     }
 
     public long calculateSize(int numEntries) {
@@ -31,7 +42,7 @@ public record BTreeContext(int maxLayers, int entrySize, int blockSizeBits, int
     }
 
     public int numIndexLayers(int numEntries) {
-        if (numEntries <= blockSizeWords *MIN_PAGES_FOR_BTREE/entrySize) {
+        if (entrySize * numEntries <= pageSize * MIN_PAGES_FOR_BTREE) {
             return 0;
         }
         for (int i = 1; i < maxLayers; i++) {
@@ -50,7 +61,11 @@ public record BTreeContext(int maxLayers, int entrySize, int blockSizeBits, int
     public long indexLayerSize(int numWords, int level) {
         final long layerSize = 1L<<(blockSizeBits *(level+1));
 
-        return blockSizeWords * (numWords / layerSize + Long.signum(numWords % layerSize));
+        return pageSize * (numWords / layerSize + Long.signum(numWords % layerSize));
+    }
+
+    public int pageSize() {
+        return pageSize;
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/libraries/btree/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriterTest.java b/libraries/btree/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriterTest.java
index af4798f9..8d9cf4f8 100644
--- a/libraries/btree/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriterTest.java
+++ b/libraries/btree/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/btree/BTreeWriterTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package nu.marginalia.btree;
 
 import nu.marginalia.array.LongArray;
+import nu.marginalia.btree.model.BTreeBlockSize;
 import nu.marginalia.btree.model.BTreeContext;
 import nu.marginalia.btree.model.BTreeHeader;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -23,21 +24,21 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
 
     @Test
     void testSmallDataBlock() {
-        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  3);
+        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  BTreeBlockSize.BS_64);
         BTreeWriter writer = new BTreeWriter(null, ctx);
 
-        var header = writer.makeHeader(1024, ctx.blockSizeWords()/2);
+        var header = writer.makeHeader(1024, ctx.pageSize()/2);
         assertEquals(1024 + BTreeHeader.BTreeHeaderSizeLongs, header.dataOffsetLongs());
         assertEquals(header.dataOffsetLongs(), header.indexOffsetLongs());
     }
 
     @Test
     void testLayerCount() {
-        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  3);
+        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  BTreeBlockSize.BS_64);
         BTreeWriter writer = new BTreeWriter(null, ctx);
 
-        int wsq = ctx.blockSizeWords()*ctx.blockSizeWords();
-        int wcub = ctx.blockSizeWords()*ctx.blockSizeWords()*ctx.blockSizeWords();
+        int wsq = ctx.pageSize()*ctx.pageSize();
+        int wcub = ctx.pageSize()*ctx.pageSize()*ctx.pageSize();
 
         assertEquals(2, writer.makeHeader(1024, wsq-1).layers());
         assertEquals(2, writer.makeHeader(1024, wsq).layers());
@@ -50,10 +51,10 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
 
     @Test
     void testLayerOffset() {
-        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  3);
+        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  BTreeBlockSize.BS_64);
         BTreeWriter writer = new BTreeWriter(null, ctx);
 
-        int wcub = ctx.blockSizeWords()*ctx.blockSizeWords()*ctx.blockSizeWords();
+        int wcub = ctx.pageSize()*ctx.pageSize()*ctx.pageSize();
         System.out.println(writer.makeHeader(1025, wcub).relativeIndexLayerOffset(ctx, 0));
         System.out.println(writer.makeHeader(1025, wcub).relativeIndexLayerOffset(ctx, 1));
         System.out.println(writer.makeHeader(1025, wcub).relativeIndexLayerOffset(ctx, 2));
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
             printTreeLayout(i, header, ctx);
 
             if (header.layers() >= 1) {
-                assertEquals(1, ctx.indexLayerSize(i, header.layers() - 1) / ctx.blockSizeWords());
+                assertEquals(1, ctx.indexLayerSize(i, header.layers() - 1) / ctx.pageSize());
             }
         }
     }
@@ -73,14 +74,14 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
     private void printTreeLayout(int numEntries, BTreeHeader header, BTreeContext ctx) {
         StringJoiner sj = new StringJoiner(",");
         for (int l = 0; l < header.layers(); l++) {
-            sj.add(""+ctx.indexLayerSize(numEntries, l)/ctx.blockSizeWords());
+            sj.add(""+ctx.indexLayerSize(numEntries, l)/ctx.pageSize());
         }
         System.out.println(numEntries + ":" + sj);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testWriteEntrySize2() throws IOException {
-        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  3);
+        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  BTreeBlockSize.BS_64);
 
         var tempFile = Files.createTempFile(Path.of("/tmp"), "tst", "dat");
 
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testWriteEntrySize2Small() throws IOException {
-        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  3);
+        BTreeContext ctx = new BTreeContext(4,  2,  BTreeBlockSize.BS_64);
 
         int[] data = generateItems32(5);
         Set<Integer> items = IntStream.of(data).boxed().collect(Collectors.toSet());
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ class BTreeWriterTest {
     @Test
     public void testWriteEqualityNotMasked() throws IOException {
         for (int bs = 2; bs <= 4; bs++) {
-            var ctx = new BTreeContext(5, 1, bs);
+            var ctx = new BTreeContext(5, 1, BTreeBlockSize.fromBitCount(bs));
             long[] data = generateItems64(500);
             Set<Long> items = LongStream.of(data).boxed().collect(Collectors.toSet());