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Originally Posted by varaonaid
Yes! My primary devices are a Windows laptop and Android smartphone and tablets. I just now playing with this idea of an e ink tablet but if want it to be usable with whatever eco system I end up using. Could you please expound upon which apps on Android can sync reading location? Are any other than Amazon cross platform?
I'm giving some thought to looking at one of the Android based e ink readers and then using with an Android app or even possibly the Kindle app for reading and syncing. At least I'd have full control of my context and device. I think I can even use Kindle as normal but without being locked into its eco system and dealing with jailbreaking. The truth is, I want something fairly simple and usable. I hate having to make it so darn complex. It's why I eventually gave in and went Google (even before Android) back in the day. It just worked (email, contacts, etc). Heck, I'd go with that for books in a flash in it didn't have the 1000 book limit. I'm definitely concerned about privacy but I'm not crazy about it. I realize some tradeoffs have to be made for usability. If I'm straight up about it, my concern is if anyone has had trouble loading non DRM books into their Amazon account that they (Amazon) sells DRM'd. It's obviously the only way to get everything into one location (or reversing it and using the Apprentice Alf on Kindle books to put elsewhere). It's crap that the sellers have put us in this situation. Bitty I want to figure out a workable solution and overcome it.
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Not all books Amazon sells have DRM. It is the publisher that decides.
Now in answer to your other question. You can either sideload or use the send to kindle feature for non-Amazon books. You can also upload non-Amazon books to Amazon's cloud.
You are NOT locked in to an ecosystem. If you have read somewhere that either a Kindle or Kobo cannot read anything other than what they sell, that is BS and is nearly always said by someone that hates either Amazon or Kobo.
I have personally on both ereaders: bought from the store and sideloaded. On the kindle, I have also used send to kindle, emailed to my kindle and just stored in the cloud.
If you don't want Amazon to know what you have then don't use the cloud feature.
But then you can't sync across devices.
Note: I have 2 e-ink kindles (used to be 3), a kindle fire, a tablet with the kindle app on it, a kobo (2nd generation), and a laptop with the kindle for PC app.