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Originally Posted by davidfor
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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The cat etc generally doesn't disturb me while reading - if she sits on my lap, I just carry on reading while she purrs - but I do things like highlighting quite a lot, also searches in book for names etc. The Kobo is always fully on and I'm actively using it, regularly turning pages as I read. I know how long my reading sessions are by the time showing on the 'ambient' video (birdsong, rain, etc) playing in the background.
However, when considering the next book, lots of flipping about between collections, reading the details or first paragraphs to see what takes my fancy, is done. This might affect the timing?