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Old 02-24-2014, 01:13 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
That's not really what I meant. It's not necessarily bugs that come and go. Sometimes they are deliberate decisions by Kobo.

For instance, I believe it was stated at the time, that the time-to-read stats were removed from sideloaded kepubs because they were inaccurate. Conspiracy or fact - I don't know (or much care, because personally, I have no use for them).
Hm, ok. LOL. It's not that difficult to calculate.

Screen swaps = (Nr. of chars to end of book or paragraph) / (Nr. of chars on screen with current settings)

And one can obviously measure the time it takes the user to swap the screen (average it over 5-10 swaps or so).

Screen swap * time per screen = time needed to end the chapter.

Maybe I should e-mail this algorithm to Kobo

(The Kindle calculates this in a different way, because it does NOT change the number of pages when changing font settings, and it does not need to recalculate if you make the font bigger or smaller; so it does not use screen swaps to calculte.)
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