Sounds like that works well.
I wish that the Kindle Freetime tracking system had a version for adults (Iāve thought about making a kid profile for myself just to get info on how much Iām reading, but that feels weird), and that it could be integrated with Beeminder. Iād definitely do a lot more reading if I had a goal for it, but so far the idea of manually tracking my reading sounds way too tedious. Since most of my reading is on my Kindle, it seems like the Freetime system would be a perfect fit, but because itās so kid-focused and bound up with all those library restriction features, Iāve been hesitant to activate it on my Kindle.
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I use Beeminder and Rescuetime integration. So far it is useful for reading 1.5hrs daily beeminding the kindle time use. That works, but only on Mac/Pc. It will be nice to have the RescueTime on iPhone (yeah I know Apple sandboxing) but for now and a couple of months later it has been pretty useful to build the habit.
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Got my new Kindle today and setup FreeTime for myself. It was weird when i answered that iām a āboyā and couldnāt put my birth year below 1980, but whateverā¦ 
So far i like that it seems to do a good job at tracking actual reading time, e.g. time spent on menus, etc is not counted, and you get a countdown at the footer (ā14min left for your daily goalā)
For anyone interested, more details on what numbers it gives you, see here http://www.dshack.net/2014/11/04/tracking-reading-statistics-on-the-kindle/
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Haha, thatās my Quora answer! Yep, Freetime looked promising but 1) it doesnāt work for personal documents or books purchased outside the Kindle store, and 2) thereās no API 
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Yeah, for now i just have a daily habit on Habitica for ā15ā readingā. When Kindle says iāve reached it, i just check the daily on Habitica.
A minimal amount of data entry, and at this point iād rather enforce a daily process rather than a general amount of activity
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Iāve decided to discontinue my Beeminder goal. As people have said, the āX minutes left in your reading goalā notification on the Kindle is pretty motivating, and it was getting aggravating to dig out the Kindle every few days to update my Beeminder goal. If it was automated, Iād probably keep it, but as it is, itās just not providing significant reinforcement one way or the other. I have āreadā in my daily Complice boilerplate and a āreadā habit in Habitica. Beeminding it just seems like overkill. So Iāve marked the goal for archiving.
Now I just have to figure out what I want to replace it with! A workout goal? Another money goal (Iāve already got two)? Hm. Gotta think about this.
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Hi, thanks for your feedback but could you clarify on how I can beemind specific activities? Iām new to both RescueTime and Beeminder, and would like to record my reading hours. Iām now using RescueTime on my laptop to track my usage on a website, and am thinking to download the RT app on my iPad to track reading time from the app Books.