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Old 08-14-2014, 03:13 PM   #24
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Knowing how far you are is not the same as knowing how long you view a page. Of course the unit itself knows what page you are on but not how long you have been there. I can't imagine what clandestine purpose knowing how long you were on a page could be used for anyway.
True, how far != how long. But as I said, the unit (if we are talking about Kindles) most certainly does know how long you view each page, since that is the only way to measure Time Left To Read (a metric of how long you will view each page that is left).

And since Amazon does not, I believe, pay authors when you borrow a book through Kindle Unlimited and skip to halfway, read a few pages and give up, I have a feeling they sync that data back to their servers.

I do agree, and have long since done so, that this data cannot serve any meaningful purpose in spying on you unless someone is FAR more imaginative than I.

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There is no difference between "purchasing" an eBook and "licensing" an eBook. You always own the file itself but DRM might prevent you from using the file to read.
I am unsure why you think I need that to be explained...

Last edited by eschwartz; 08-14-2014 at 06:40 PM. Reason: edited to be more specific about the borrowing
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