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Originally Posted by Thalia Helikon
An article published in the Consumerist states that e-book readers:
send information back to Amazon or Barnes & Noble (or Google, or Apple). It's not just so that you can switch between your e-reader, laptop, phone and tablet without losing your bookmarks and notes; it's also so that these e-book sellers can share this information with the publishers of the books you're reading.
From the "Wall Street Journal:
Data collected from Nooks reveals, for example, how far readers get in particular books, how quickly they read and how readers of particular genres engage with books. Jim Hilt, the company's vice president of e-books, says the company is starting to share their insights with publishers to help them create books that better hold people's attention.[/INDENT]
So publishers know the obvious things -- that readers are more likely to bail out on lengthy, complicated books than they are on shorter, frothy titles. But they also know how quickly people read books, how long people wait between buying a title before they actually read it, which kinds of titles people are likely to buy and/or read after finishing that book, and even things like which sections of a book are most frequently highlighted.
 My question is-- what private information is coded into ebooks created or converted in calibre? Is there readable information that includes unique identifiers? Is there some way to strip out identifiers from files that might have been converted or catalogued on another machine?
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Get a PEz (or other reader) that does not have WiFi or 3G. Of course, you will have to give up some convenience and use a USB cable
Calibre adds a date-time, a UUID