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Old 12-25-2013, 08:54 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
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.
Actually, Whispersync isn't (only) about syncing the audiobook with your regular ebook--it's about syncing your location, notes and bookmarks across all of your different devices that you read/listen to Kindle books on. The feature of Amazon/Kindle that resembles Pocket is the personal documents feature, where you can send any document or web page directly to your Amazon cloud from your computer using either your Kindle's email address or an application called Send to Kindle. The Personal Document feature goes one step further than Pocket, since with Pocket (I believe) you can only send web pages.

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