title_body: Tracking time spent reading on a kindle? 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.
upvoted_answer: 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 &quot;Kindle FreeTime&quot;. 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.