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Old 12-01-2016, 08:30 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by jazthedj View Post
I can add all my non Apple purchased books into iBooks and they sync perfectly with my iPad, iPhone. So the Kindle is the only reader that will sync across all devices? I was really wanting to use a eReader but not a 6" screen.
Getting the books onto the iOS devices isn't hard. Getting information about those books can be. As an example, there is a calibre plugin for the iOS app Marvin. The plugin was able to read the database used by Marvin to get details of the books. But, as of some version of iOS, this stopped. Apple changed something in the interface so it was impossible to access the database and get the information. There have been several attempts to solve this, and none have worked.

Automatically syncing books only works between like devices and apps. Books on a Kindle can be synced to other Kindles and to the Kindle apps. I've always assumed iBooks was the same, but, I don't use it. Books purchased from Kobo will sync between the Kobo devices and apps. This will sync the reading positions and annotations. But, sideloaded books are not synced. I think some of the non-shop/device attached reading apps can sync as well, but only to instances of the same app running on another device.

To sync reading positions between dissimilar devices or apps means there has to be a way to extract the position from one device/app and send it to the new device/app. That includes converting the position from the format used by the two devices/apps. To the best of my knowledge, no device or app actually supports either the extract or send. And there is definitely no standard for it. So anyone who wants to do this, probably has to start from scratch. I have done this for the Kobo devices because that is what I use. It wouldn't be hard to do for Sony devices, but no-one is particularly interested as they are no longer on the market. Doing it for the calibre viewer shouldn't be hard, but I'm not considering that until v3 is released. Converting between these three for an epub, isn't that hard (I've done it manually, just haven't written the code). For other devices and apps, I don't know. I don't have access to them to test. As there are no apps/plugins to do it, I assume either there is not enough interest, the data cannot be accessed (pretty sure that is the case of Kindles) or it is to hard.
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