Yeah. I did some experiments on the value of reads and I had another user and another account responding to one another on stories that no on else had read. The reads were coming in at 21 cents each in one case. And in another one user's reads were worth about 60 cents each. They managed to use the value of their entire subscriptions just in those exchanges. Any further reads would have paid out more to different authors.

I didn't get a bump on 5 January, so I don't know anything about that. :)