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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
But don't sign up for Kindle Unlimited which seems like a good deal to me and then complain about Amazon harvesting your clicks.
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I can't tell, was that comment addressed to my post that you quoted? Or was it a more generic comment?
I don't think I complained about KU. Other than saying it wasn't for me in a post way back in this thread. While I didn't whine about KU harvesting clicks, you are correct in assuming that I don't like the practice. That is one of the reasons I leave my Kindle in Airplane Mode (not for KU specifically, but for all Amazon purchases).
Regarding your other comment about Amazon knowing how many pages of a book you have read:
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And it's clearly NOT impossible since Kindle books sync across devices. If you leave off at chapter ten on your Oasis and then open the Kindle app on your tablet, the book will open to chapter ten. Amazon knows where you are in a book.
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...which I assume is in response to me saying:
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I wonder why Amazon decided to pay "per page read"? It's inherently impossible for them to determine that.
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Well, Amazon really doesn't know. The best they know is what the current page is for a book you have. They still have no idea if you read the pages before the current page or just jumped to it randomly. And they don't know how many pages you have read if you keep your Kindle in Airplane Mode. That's why I said "it's inherently impossibly for them to determine that". They can collect data and store it over time - for example, they could log the current page and a timestamp every hour so they could see how fast you are progressing and make assumptions regarding reading or not reading based on that. This kind of data collection is getting too intrusive for me to stomach - hence me keeping my Kindle in Airplane Mode. If Amazon wants to collect this much data (and I have no idea if they actually do or not), then they can ask me politely to have it, and pay me for it. I'm not going to give it to them (or to Google, or to Microsoft) for free. Likewise, if they want to upload data they collect on me for their corporate use, they can pony up and share the monthly bill from my ISP. I don't donate my network bandwidth to corporations for free either.