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Originally Posted by lkmiller
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!)
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.
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what baffles/surprises me is why there isn't an option in Firmware 4.12.12111 in the settings menu (already) that is easy to find, so that the user/owner of the ereader as the choice to always turn off all syncing (permanently) if that's what they desire/want. it would be especially good to have for people like me who only ever sideload their books.
and of course if you don't mind syncing of any description then you can set the option to always turn on.
best wishes koboy
