Tracking Your Reading Habits
“For centuries, reading has largely been a solitary and private act, an intimate exchange between the reader and the words on the page.” - WSJ article e-Book readers like the Kindle and other reader apps on the iPad and Android can and do track how you read. Whether you read the acknowledgments or skip it. Do you read the book at one sitting or multiple sittings? Did you finish reading the book or did you drop off in the middle? And if you dropped off, was it after the first few pages or half-way into it? All this data is then shared with publishers who assess which styles hold the reader’s attention. They help identify which points make a book boring and cause drop offs. The publishers in turn pass that feedback on to authors. Another feature of e-book readers is that they allow readers to highlight passages they like. Or to add their own comments. Amazon even lists the most highlighted parts of books on their site. This is a far bet...