E-readers provide the opportunity to analyse reading in real time like never before by simply logging what we read and when. Wouldn't it be interesting to know:
- How long did I spend reading a book (both elapsed time and reading time)?
- What is my reading speed?
- Do I read faster or slower than others?
- How long do most people take to read this book?
- How much longer will it take me to reach the end of the chapter/the end of the book?
- What percentage of readers carried on reading beyond this point?
- When is the good bit (where other readers couldn't put the book down) coming?
- Where did readers get bogged down?
- ...
Readers, writers and publishers would all benefit from these insights so why are e-readers not recording the data? Or are they? Am I missing something? Is there any add-in software that does this?