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Originally Posted by DNSB
Having read through this thread plus several of your other posts, I find your belief that turning off a scheduled sync should disable all syncs to be a trifle disingenuous.
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For me, the sync when I open some screens is handy since I do borrow library books and that syncs them to my ereader. The sync at the end of a book updates time and pages read counters. I vaguely remember that you will also get a sync in the middle of a book depending on how long it takes to read.
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If you really expect your device to sync this frequently without your explicit invocation, what is the point of having a scheduled sync at all? It seems to me that the device would sync itself frequently enough just by happenstance as you go about your business using the device.
Same question to the others that follow this line of thinking.
I find it stretches credulity that a non-technical end user unfamiliar with the inner workings of the device to infer this the same way as you. If anything is atypical about this group of Kobo users, it's that some of you are significantly more experienced with the device than the typical user, and I think this is colouring your expectations of how the average user will interpret what's meant by the messages in the settings.
The average user will interpret disabling automatic sync to mean that all syncs henceforth will require manual invocation. End of story.
In order to infer otherwise, the user would need to be aware of other circumstances under which the device could justifiably be expected to sync without the user's invocation. I believe that many of you are too experienced and knowledgeable to recognise this.