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Originally Posted by Amazondoc
But "page" count doesn't mean much with ebooks, because that will vary greatly with customized features such as font size, margin size, and so on. You'd have to calculate on something like word count or percentage instead.
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Amazon uses
Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC v3.0) to determine what counts as a "page" for Kindle Unlimited.
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To determine a book's page count in a way that works across genres, devices, and display settings, we developed the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC). KENPC is calculated using standard formatting settings (font, line height, line spacing, etc.). We use KENPC to measure the number of pages customers read in your book, starting with the Start Reading Location (SRL) to the end of your book. Amazon typically sets SRL at chapter 1 so readers can start reading the core content of your book as soon as they open it. Non-text elements within books including images, charts and graphs will count toward a book’s KENPC.
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Originally Posted by Amazondoc
And another problem: If you are trying to count time spent on each and every page (or each and every given percentage point), wouldn't that require a lot of complicated record-keeping? Those files that accompany, for instance, azw-format books (mbp, phl, apnx) are small files. I'm not educated enough to know what's in them, but is there really room there for such granular timekeeping records?
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There are a lot of files on your Kindle that you don't see. And I disagree that it would be all that much data to keep. The current page number, the start time that the current page was flipped to and one bit for each page in the book showing whether or not it has been read would be enough.