Abstract
We address digital reading practices in Russia analyzing 10 months of logging data from a commercial ebook mobile app. We describe the data and focus on three aspects: reading schedule, reading speed, and book abandonment. The exploratory study proves a high potential of the data and proposed approach.
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http://www.levada.ru/2015/05/19/rossiyane-o-chtenii/(in Russian).
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We adopted 30-minute threshold widely used in search query log studies.
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We thank Bookmate and Samer Fatayri in person for preparing the dataset and granting access.Our study was performed using the computational cluster of the Ural Federal University.
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Braslavski, P., Petras, V., Likhosherstov, V., Gäde, M. (2016). Ten Months of Digital Reading: An Exploratory Log Study. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_32
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