Thank you taming for the link.
I agree with all of that: my privacy is very important to me. I don't want a bookstore to know every book I read, on what page I put a bookmark or how many times I reread a book. No b&m bookstore is coming to my place to check my bookshelves and documents, so I'm glad Kobo's behaving the same way
But that's not helpful to those who want everything to be synchronized