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Old 06-22-2012, 06:09 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Pardoner View Post
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?
In order to do this, you would need your reader to send stats to some central server in order to give you the data. I don't think a lot of people would actually like this.
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