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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I would think they have no idea how long you spent on a page. The unit doesn't log this sort of data.
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Actually, they (Amazon Kindle, at least) kind of have to, according to the idea behind KU. They pay authors once 10% has been read. (Before this news, I would've thought the same as you.) Although the unit definitely does log the data -- that is how the Time Left To Read is calculated.
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You can make any notes on a piece of paper. No need to use the unit. The license idea is important for any eBook that anyone sells. Otherwise you could buy one, make a hundred copies and give them away to your friends. This is a bit tougher to do with a paper book. Of course you can still do that by breaking the law.
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Of course, even if an ebook is a purchase, it is still against the law to redistribute.
License vs. purchase doesn't magically make it more illegal than it already was to take something you bought and duplicate it to then redistribute someone else's copyrighted creative work.
Same goes for photocopying and redistributing a pbook. It may be more difficult, but then again, it is also against the law.