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Is there a way to track and export time spent reading on a Kindle?
I'm setting a goal around reading books several hours a week, and I would love to automate the tracking.
Amazon seems to track furthest page read and your bookmarks and highlights, but I can't find any way to track time spent. Ideally, I'd like to export this data as JSON or CSV.
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I discovered an answer to this in this quora thread:
The only way I've found to do this is to get the latest firmware for the Kindle Paperwhite and enroll yourself in "Kindle FreeTime". This is a program intended to restrict the content that children can read while tracking their progress. It provides reading time, books read, pages read, etc. Why this is hidden behind a feature that is 100% directed at children is unclear to me. But if you don't mind occasionally entering a parental control password (I just set mine to a single letter) and jumping through a few hoops, I'd checkout FreeTime.
I verified the solution, and wrote up a guide. Using Freetime, you can definitely track these metrics.
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