relatedly:

"On the Media" this week had a discussion about ebooks and apparently some publishers are using ebook data to help their authors write punchier dialogues or narratives because they can track where readers stop reading in the book and perhaps even page-turning speed. The areas that we skim, etc.

Well, when I left UCLA's campus today at 1:00 (and the building in which I am teaching is old and has intermittent sometimes air blowing but no conditioning) it was 86 degrees. That's not particularly inland nor far from your home.

At my house, when I got home it was 92 degrees. I then exacerbated the heat by agreeing to go and practice batting with Noah (if I think "Who the hell is this kid?" that sentence should make everyone say, "WTF? Kat?! not you!") at 3:00 PM. The field felt hotter than the face of the sun.

Right now it's 75 degrees which is okay, but the 60% (as of right now) humidity is not so grand. Our house is around 78 degrees with AC on.

I'm feeling like a weather girl.

Also, my elevation change from my old house (at around 700 feet) to our new house (at around 1650 feet) is pretty dramatic in terms of weather effect. It cools off nicely up here but still. HOT.

le nubian, did they mention they also track what people annotate and highlight? I highlight a shit ton of stuff so I'm always curious.

They totally can track that. Which weirds me out in a way that is not, I logically know, rational. Because my tv has been doing that for ages. Much less my online stuff. But books seem ... private? They aren't, obviously.

Whoo, temp just dropped to the point where windows are open and fans are on. I'd like to thank Seattle for having some weird thunderstorm thing because we were a lot cooler today than projected.

Not LeN, but yes, they do. They track everything that you do with the book, including how long it takes you to finish it, whether you start reading something else, etc. CREEPY.

I wish they had nielsen ratings for books then.

It's different, than TV, because I don't really pay for TV so they have to turn around and sell my eyes to the sponsors. But books? I've paid for. So back off.

I want to go to sleep, but I don't know if CJ has a ride home or not. I think they were going to search until 11pm if they don't find whatever it is before then.

So, unfortunately, the bra is still on and I'm avoiding my bedroom like the plague.

We have the A/C on, and when I walk outside it feels like I'll mildew if I stay out there too long.

I haven't been in A/C since Tuesday, so I guess I've just gotten used to it.

They track everything that you do with the book, including how long it takes you to finish it, whether you start reading something else,

Heh, I beg the Hunger Games trilogy set the record for Can't Put It Down.

yes, what Vortex and Cass said.

The whole thing makes me embarrassed, because I have several half-read books!