The feature starts with an average number and then adjusts as it learns your reading habits.
Some privacy watchdogs argue that e-book users should be protected from having their digital reading habits recorded.
This might reflect the fact that for younger children, parents and teachers might intervene more in reading habits.
This has not translated into any noticeable impact on Americans' reading habits.
The 2001 Patriot Act had given government agencies the right to examine citizens' library and bookshop records, bringing back memories of old Radulovich's supposedly incriminating reading habits.
"Our reading habits online encompass everything we're thinking about, political and religious views, health and relationship problems, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy-advocacy group.
Amazon, in particular, has an advantage in this field it's both a retailer and a publisher, which puts the company in a unique position to use the data it gathers on its customers' reading habits.
Now, we need you to join us in the fight to defend reader privacy take action and tell Eric Schmidt that you demand the same privacy for your online reading habits that you enjoy when reading paper.
What happens when the photos on Facebook and Flickr show devastated crops and starving families - and these people are not just faces on the television but old friends, people whose likes and dislikes and reading habits and favourite films we know and share?
But instead it rewards and reinforces our ways of reading: our ingrained habits of consuming images, scanning information, reducing human experience to pannable nuggets of gold.
As the declarations from the Intervenors make clear, the fear of disclosure of their reading, watching, and listening habits poses an imminent threat of harm and chill to the exercise of First Amendment rights.
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This feature is smart-it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.
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This feature is smart - it personalizes the time for each customer based on their reading speed and is constantly updated as the reader's speed and habits change.
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