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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Also, sync is with ALL devices... which annoys me no end and makes me unable to use it.
BOb
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Yeah, but the sync is by account, and only then by book. If you are sharing an account, and reading the same book, then you (Reader A) and your partner (Reader B) will find out that the "both" books are being sync'd to the same last spot.
But there are two workarounds I think I see.
One is to use bookmarks. This is based on the assumption that both Readers are using the same account to buy & read ebooks. The two Readers would have to work out a system for recognizing whose bookmarks are whose. The simplest would be to have each Reader bookmark the last page he read, and to remove the bookmark when he returns to read some more. The Kindles would always be sync'd to the furtherest bookmark. If that spot is not the returning Reader's spot, then he will know that the other bookmark is where he left off reading.
The other is to set up separate accounts for each Reader. I believe that devices - and the books on those devices - would be sync'd only to those devices registered to a particular account. Thus, Reader A could download a book from Reader B's account (Account B) then unlink and relink to his own account (Account A.) Reader A could register his Kindle and his iPhone to Account A, and they would sync regardless of what Reader B was doing with his copy of the book. If you already have a common account (which sounds like your situation) just set up two more accounts (A and B) for the sole purpose of syncing, and continue to make purchases & download from the common account, but unlink and return to your own account before doing any reading. (I haven't tested this but I think this will work.)