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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.
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For me, the scheduled sync is not needed. OTOH, I know several people who use their ereaders anywhen from on the weekend to maybe once or twice a month. For them, the scheduled sync would help to keep them up to date. I did not use the word bibliophagist in my personalisation lightly so for me, I don't need the scheduled sync task.
As has been said before, the average ereader user is not the average Mobileread member. If nothing else, from what I've read, quite a few Mobileread members have TBR piles into the triple digits compared to the 12 ebooks read per year by the "average American".
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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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Minor disagreement. The average user is never going notice that setting much less be confused about what it means. I agree the wording could be changed to make it clearer that this is changing whether a daily sync will be scheduled but as I said, darn few users are ever going to find the setting or care what it does.