05-22-2022, 12:06 AM | #1 |
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How does the estimated time to read work?
By this, I'm not referring to the "5-6 hours to read" that shows up in book details, but the "6 hours to go" that appears when a kepub is on the home page.
Is it individual for each book? I've seen instances of, say, "30 minutes to go" on a book, but then when I read a bit more and go back to the home page it's suddenly "2 hours to go." Then I've seen individual books get glitchy short times (this happens mostly when I use Kobo's desktop app to load the books onto the device). What exactly is happening? |
05-22-2022, 08:21 AM | #2 | |
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05-22-2022, 08:45 AM | #3 | |
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I read a lot of non-fiction and kepub is better for that; however, since time left in book also includes index and notes and bibliography, it’s not terribly useful. I can click on the beginning of the back matter and see time left at that point and then subtract, but it’s not worth the bother. |
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05-25-2022, 03:29 PM | #5 |
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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? |
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05-25-2022, 03:51 PM | #6 |
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05-25-2022, 05:04 PM | #7 |
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I don't see this on my kobo, and I would have to disregard it anyway. There are occasions when I will backtrack to earlier pages if something didn't quite make sense, or if an unfamiliar word pops up I'll use the built in dictionary (or google on my phone)
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05-25-2022, 10:03 PM | #8 | |
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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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05-26-2022, 11:30 AM | #9 | |
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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? |
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