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Originally Posted by jackie_w
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).
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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.)