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Before this gets out of hand: Certainly it’s not Kobo’s fault if annotations get lost due to user behavior. However, they could help ease the blowback by giving users the option to store books along with their annotations in some cloud service. Amazon does it, Google does it, Apple does it, tolino does it, for exactly that reason. Not only does it protect users’ annotations from their own stupidity, it also helps ease the transition to new devices. Kobo may think that this suffices for books bought from their store and that reading brought books is just a generous offering on their part, yet all the other major players seem to think otherwise (and it helps their market share, among other things of course, reliability being one factor, prices of content may be another). Moreover, spontaneously corrupting databases are not unheard of in the Kobo realm, so that would help with that...
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