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Originally Posted by Bembo
I don't read for completion, but having an e-reader has made me increasingly aware of those 'stats' for better or worse. It also may be a double edged sword that it tells me how many hours I have left in a book or in a chapter. This is useful of course, but also can become a crutch. My Kobo also tells me that I've "only" finished 4% of my current library, and spent about 154 or so hours reading on the device. These are all aimed at maintaining maximum engagement with the device in a gamified way. (I haven't read Hooked by Nir Eyal, but I suspect this is the exactly the strategy discussed in that book.) In today's attention-starved world, my brain can't help but latch onto those sorts of metrics, which are mercifully lacking in print books.
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Reading is a life and death struggle! It’s no game!
Glad Amazon hasn’t gone too far in this direction. They do track days of reading but that’s it.