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Originally Posted by MGlitch
You’ll read at a fairly consistent rate with only slight variations due to subject matter and outside distractions. Why not use time spent reading as a measure of how much reading you’ve done. It won’t vary with any reasonable change in font size etc, nor in screen size.
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Time spent reading doesn't work easily for me. I rarely get to read for a specified amount of time, so I would end up trying to calculate a page-count or word-count for each block of time during the day, if I even bothered to track it anymore. Why on earth should I do that when the current system allows me to open a book, see that I am on "page 37 of 650" and at the end of the day that I am on "page 123 of 650"? It's easy, I do it automatically, and I have a general idea of how much reading I did today compared to how much I did yesterday. Since percentages change with every book, it becomes impossible to estimate day-to-day volume except within the same book. I'm not saying this is critical information that would end my life if I couldn't have it, but it's something I've always done. Page numbers are simply much more consistent for my needs/wants. And, as I said, I'm not looking for absolute accuracy, just for a general idea of "how much did I read today?"