The Jeremiah Quandary

The book of Jeremiah is presenting me with a bit of a quandary.  According to the reading plan, you read Jeremiah in large chunks, namely the first forty chapters one right after another.  However, Jeremiah isn't constructed chronologically.  The prophecies are not laid out in the order they were given (much like Ezekiel) and instead lumps prophecies from different eras altogether in a jumble.  There may not even be a logical arrangement for the book at all.  There could be a couple of reasons for this.  One, God gave Jeremiah commands from time to time to write down all the prophecies that he'd been given.  This command wasn't given right away; so his compilation may have started very late and he put things together as the Lord revealed them to him after they'd been given.  Another thing, Jeremiah did this twice.  It records in Chapter 36 that Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, read the "words of the scroll", or the prophecies that had been written down, in the Temple (house of the Lord).  Now, one Micaiah was listening, went to all the officials and told them what Baruch had read.  These officials, in fear, then reported these things to the king.  An official was sent to take the scroll from Baruch, brought it before the king and read it.  As King Jehoiakim heard a few columns of the Scriptures Jeremiah had written down, he would slice it off with a knife and throw it into the fire next to him!  Imagine, he was destroying Scripture.  Not the first or last time this might happen, granted.  However, God had the last say: He commanded Jeremiah to again write down the words of the scroll, which he did, and included in them was a prophecy against Jehoiakim and his descendants and servants: not only would they all go down into ruin, and bring Jerusalem into ruin as well, but Jehoiakim's own body would be unburied, left to the exposure of the elements (Jeremiah 36:9-32).  The point of this [long] little tale is that Jeremiah had to compile his prophecies more than once and it may be a factor in the structure of the book.

The quandary for me is how true do I want to stay to the chronological timeline for a reading plan?  To be strict about it, I should slice and dice Jeremiah and sprinkle the readings more fully among the readings from 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles.  But to do that, I'd have to slice and dice those readings even more.  Plus, the kings Jeremiah prophesied under get no more than a few paragraphs, if that, in the historical books.  So, do I go to even more work to reorder the readings on my own based off my few resources on the time of Jeremiah's prophecies, or do I just go through with the reading plan and "keep it all in mind"?  Granted, I have about 15 months until I will actually make it to that portion of the Bible.  Still, input would in fact be appreciated.