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Your E-Book Is Reading You
June 30, 2012 - 12:45am — Bibliofuture
Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading.
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They have it right
Opening line of article - It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
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This is exactly right. I have read one book on my phone using the Kobo reader and it was the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy. There is a timer on the Kobo reader and I finished the book in just over seven hours.
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