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Originally Posted by eschwartz
No, it is iOS only. I believe there may be a general plan in the works to port it to Android, but Kobo runs linux as an embedded system so Marvin will never run on it.
The locations use mutually incompatible formats.
Syncing locations across multiple platforms remains, as ever, the elusive holy grail of ereading.  |
So that's what you're working on in your avatar!
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I think the Kindle comes closest, with a Kindle app on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, as well as their own brand of e-ink ereaders, and the ability to email books to your Kindle Cloud.
What kills it is that for your own books emailed to send-to-kindle, you cannot download them on Kindle for PC (and maybe not to Kindle for Mac either, for all I know).
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Yes, within the ecosystem of an ereader, the reading positions transfer. My utilities plugin does it for sideloaded books on Kobo's via calibre. I know I could do a similar thing for Sony and someone is porting my Kobo Utilities plugin and plans to include this. I'm pretty sure I could move the reading positions between epubs on Kobo and Sony. ADE should be possible as well, but I don't think it's work the hassle. These all use the same method to store the position. Other RMSDK readers should be possible as they probably use the same thing, but it depends on exactly where they store the position. The calibre viewer uses a different method, but the translation is easy. I have done some manual translations that proved the theory, but haven't looked at automating it. When the viewer supports annotations, I'll be looking at this properly.