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Originally Posted by issybird
Except that it doesn't, frequently, as I indicated in my comment. Just this morning, I picked up my downstairs reader and opened it, and it didn't sync to where I left off with my nightstand reader. Both devices always have WiFi on; both are on the same network.
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To me it sounds like Kobo should do better at syncing.
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Except a screen is not a page as a fixed entity, as it needs to be for both navigation across devices and for time estimates. When I make a font bigger or smaller while reading, the page numbers change. When I switch to a larger or smaller device, the page numbers change. And I'll do both in the course of reading a book. I know approximately how long an ADE page takes me to read, as an ADE page is a constant. The shifting Kobo pages? How the heck can I know?
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If you read a nice illustrated edition of Lord of the Rings at home and a paperback edition on the go, you have the same problem.
There are other downsides to kepub: the font rendering and layout aren't as nice as ePubs. But I put up with that because the one screen/one page is worth it.
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For someone who reads on one device and never changes font size, your method works. For anyone else, it's a killer.
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Though the words weren't said, I'm guessing your statement could also be translated as "for the majority of Kobo readers, the kepub method works. For anyone else, they should use ePub."