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Originally Posted by JeanPierre
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.
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I consider turning on wifi an "explicit invocation" for any device to keep itself up-to-date. To me, that's the main reason for an ereader to have wifi. Being able to check Google or Wikipedia is a side benefit.
The point of scheduling a complete sync once every 24 hours is in case I didn't wake it up at all or maybe I only looked at Pocket articles that day (extremely rare for me, but it might have happened once or twice!)
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Originally Posted by JeanPierre
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.
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In these days of everything getting connected to the internet, I'm surprised to hear that people expect anything but turning off wifi to stop *all* syncing. Looking at the Kobo's setting page, I can now sorta see how it could be misinterpreted. But I'm still surprised.
One thing that baffles me about Kindles is that they don't sync the time. Why would anything with a clock and an internet connection not keep itself on local time? Twice a year I pick up my Kindle and wonder for a moment why it's an hour off. It's the only wifi enabled thing I own that I have to manually "Spring forward" and "Fall back." And at this point, almost the only thing period.