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Originally Posted by Catlady
Here's the scenario I'm asking about. I don't have a Kindle. I'd be using an app on my phone. Wi-fi drains the battery, so I mostly turn it off. Say I read the book offline, then flip back to the cover. The next time I turn wi-fi on and return the book, how can Amazon know if I read it or not?
I'm not talking about gaming the system, I'm talking about how I would actually read borrowed books.
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As was said below your post, Amazon stores data. For example, if you highlight phrases and such, that gets stored as well.
Just FYI -- SCRIBD uses a similar payment system for authors. Their "payment" requires that 20 percent of the book be read. SCRIBD so far also provides SOME data back to the author. We can see that 20 percent was read in one day (or whatever time frame). But we only get one metric. So if the person finishes the book, we can't tell. If the person nearly finishes in a day, we see 80 percent. In other words, it appears that Scribd takes one metric right after the author has reached "you qualify for payment" and let's the author know how far the reader has read at that qualifying point. So if the person reads quickly or in one sitting, we see 40 percent or 80 percent or whathaveyou. As far as I can tell, even if the person goes back and finishes the book, we don't then get any metrics updated.