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Originally Posted by stumped
I cannot see an ideal forum for what follows so jumping onto this thread: mods are welcome to re-categorise...
LIBBY ANDROID APP - GOOGLE PLAY STORE VERSION
I have the same libby app on 2 tablets - from Google play store. 1 tablet is amazon fire and for that reason I get no sense form libby/overdrive help who say it is an unupported device. I say" but it is running sideloaded google services and store so it has the same app as my pure android samsung tablet"...
Anyway the issue is sync across devices. Libby blurb says bookmarks, notes, progress are synced, NOT in my case. neithert ablet ever gets to know what i recently did on the ohter one. the only think they seem to share is the set of currently borrowed books.
From an IT perspective, I cannot fathom how sync CAN work anyway - ie it must need a central cloud respository as its cannot send stuff directly between devices, surely ( they may not even be ON at the time. So what actually goes on when you tab the sync icon, apart from it showing you a spinning circle ???
[ all other apps I use with sync do it via cloud - moon uses my dropbox as its intermediary, Bookari uses its own cloud & I can check that from a web browser
but I cannot see any such sync data if I look inside my overdrive account at overdrive.com
Overdrive help also claims that if I go to account settings i will see a list of linked devices, but I do not even get a devices tab when i go there.
So can anyone explain to suggest ways to research this more. if anyone has 2 pure android tablets, can they test sync please, just in case it is an amazon thing - but I really don't see how it can be,. e.g. I have google chrome on the same 2 tablets and all my chrome bookmarks sync ok so there is no generic block.. I dont have a 2nd pure android tablet to test sync with . I could faff around trying to fake one in bluestacks on the PC but that is messy
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I don't take notes, but my borrows, bookmarks and progress are syncing across devices just fine. Same scenario as yours: Libby installed on a Kindle Fire via Google Play (alternative, sideloaded xda-developers version), and Libby installed on my Nexus 7 2013. No configuration changes needed. Once I logged into my library via my Overdrive login (from within Libby) on both devices, everything just worked. I borrow/read epubs.
It's never occurred to me to wonder
how it works before now, but it's apparent to me that there's a cloud component to Libby itself.