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Originally Posted by HeavyStorm
None of the reviews talk much about the cloud services that you mentioned, Whispersync and Pocket. When you say that an investment in either may make a difference, what is your point of view? Are there important differences between the two of them, or they are exactly the same (store the books bough on the stores, sync when necessary)?
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Oh, those two are completely different. Whispersync (Amazon) syncs your book reading with your audiobook reading (presuming you've bought both from them) so that you can pick up where you left off when switching formats. I don't use this, but others find it very useful.
Pocket (in conjunction with Kobo/iOS/and I think Android) is a service that allows you to grab web articles of various sorts, then syncs those articles in a stripped-down, readable form to your Kobo, tablet/phone device, etc. I use it a lot for short stories and novellas from online SF magazines, but also occasionally for long-form journalism, or to save a recipe for quick reference.