Determine if a user has previously opened / viewed a file

I am using spfx v.1.21, and pnp/sp v.4.15

I have created a webpart to display contents of a library in a custom way.

Is there a property I can read or some other way I can determine if the user / viewer of the webpart has previously opened / viewed each of the individual items?

I have considered styling :visited with plain html, but of course that will have a different history per device.

In other systems, I have maintained a separate table / store with userid/docid references, but I would rather not maintain a separate list in SharePoint for this purpose if I can avoid it.

My current item-fetching code

private async _getListData(): Promise<ISPLists>{
  const response: any[] = await this._sp.web.lists.getByTitle(this.properties.MyLibraryTitle).items.select('Id','CustomColumnA', 'Title', 'CustomColumnB').orderBy('Modified',false)(); // _sp is: this._sp = spfi().using(SPFx(this.context));

  const shapedItems = response.map((item: any):MyCustomItem =>({
    Author:item.CustomColumnA,
    CorrespondenceDate:item.CustomColumnB,
    Title:item.title,
    IsPreviouslyViewed: ???????????
  }));

return shapedItems;
}