Thread: How does the estimated time to read work?
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Old 05-25-2022, 11:03 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by BookCat View Post
In the Activity part of More, accessed from the Home page, my Libra 2 says that I read an average of 8 minutes per session. In fact I read for about 40 minutes per session.

How is this being calculated?
It's been a while since I looked at this, but, from memory, a session isn't just start reading and continue to the end. It will be stopped when you put the device to sleep. So, if you close the cover for a few moments because the cat was reminding you of your place in the household, the device will count that as two sessions.

Unfortunately, other things seem to start and end a session. One of them is using the ToC to navigate to another section of the book. It's been a while since I tried this, but, I just opened a new book and left it for a while and closed it to look at the stats. That showed the time per session and the reading time as the same. I opened the book and uses the ToC to move around it several times. It might have been open for a minute. When I looked at the stats, it was 1 minute per session and hardly any change to the total time.

There are probably other things triggering the end of a session. The ToC was one I remembered. I don't remember if using the navigation bar does or not. It wouldn't surprise me if a search or using an annotation to get to another part of the book would do it as well.
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