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Originally Posted by davidfor
But, they can measure how long a page is open. They probably need a minimum time on a page before it gets counted. That way just quickly turning a lot of pages without pause wouldn't be counted.
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Is this actually possible? This is the hypothetical timer I was talking about.
Amazon may measure the time I spend looking at a page on a website, but this isn't the same thing as looking at a page in a book on my laptop.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
There is some justification for that approach. In KFX the cover and text of the book is delivered first and then other images are delivered as separate files of about 3 MB each. That allows the book to be opened and read while it is still downloading. For some books it can make a noticable difference in the time you need to wait to start reading if you have a slow internet connection.
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That's interesting. I can see how some impatient souls may value this difference, but it isn't something I would care about -- not because I have a fast connection, which I don't, but because I don't often download a book to read the instant it's downloaded.
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Also, by splitting out the part of the DRM that is individual to each customer into a separate, small voucher file thay are able to make the rest of the files identical for all users. That is not true of the other Kindle formats.
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I can see the rationale for a separate "voucher" or "key" file. But that doesn't require the multiple files I was seeing with the few KFX books I downloaded.
Let me stipulate very clearly, though, that I am NOT a techy type, so I have zero legs to stand on when I disparage KFX's multi-file format. All I can justifiably say is that I'd rather deal with one file in my library than five or ten, and things like SD images instead of HD images aren't gonna change my mind on that.
