Paperwhite 2: know how much time I spent reading a book?

[kindleBunny]

This site is usually good for estimating the time needed to read a book and I find it more accurately personalized than the info found on amazon.

Of course, I would love the stats the OP was asking for, but this estimate should help a bit.

[chlorine]

Thanks for the link!
I've tried it on a few books but the sample I was made to read was from the back cover of the book, not from the book itself. I wonder if this makes a reliable estimate.
I think for the books I've tried, my reading speed was overestimated.

I'll check it out now and then!

[frenshprince]

The only way to have the time you spent on a book, is to use freetime.
Or to go at Kobo which have very accurate reading stats.

And freetime only works with Amazon contents.

[chlorine]

I consider kobo not to be a viable option for me as I use a linux computer and using ADE with wine to buy epub books is a pain.

I'll stick with not knowing these stats, or only for a very limited number of books.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by chlorine

I consider kobo not to be a viable option for me as I use a linux computer and using ADE with wine to buy epub books is a pain.

I'll stick with not knowing these stats, or only for a very limited number of books.

I actually find ADE on WINE to be quite viable, and pretty seamless. (Only in a pinch, I am usually loyal. )

But I would hate to encourage you to leave us.

-- eschwartz, who is a regular in the Kindle forums

[chlorine]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I actually find ADE on WINE to be quite viable, and pretty seamless. (Only in a pinch, I am usually loyal. )

But I would hate to encourage you to leave us.

I'm adding a bit of complexity to the linux/ADE configuration because I use a non-standard environment in which I don't have a desktop. I remember when I tried it some years ago that it was a nightmare to find how to do the equivalent of "drag and drop" for opening the puchased link with ADE...

I won't leave for some time anyway: I have received my PW2 for Christmas and hope to read a long time on it!

[eschwartz]

Well, that changes things (only a bit, see below), but then again, even if they had a linux client it wouldn't help you.



WINE should create a "wine-extension-acsm.desktop" which looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Adobe Digital Editions
MimeType=application/vnd.adobe.adept+xml;
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/eschwartz/.wine" wine start /ProgIDOpen Adobe.ACSMessage %f
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
Icon=3455_digitaleditions.0

So xdg-open should open *.acsm files correctly. (Without that ProgIDOpen route, well, digitaleditions.exe itself apparently does not know how to act as a file handler for ACSM. )
Drag-and-drop: not strictly necessary.

[chlorine]

Thanks for the tip ! I'll try to keep that in mind when I want to buy an epub book (which should be in a long time...

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by chlorine

[...] when I want to buy an epub book (which should be in a long time...

Amen!


Glad to be of service, even if it a little incongruous...