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Old 07-24-2020, 04:41 AM   #14
davidfor
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Originally Posted by hollowpoint View Post
* Lack of true cross-platform applications. Not everyone cares about this, but I do. I want to be able to seamlessly read books across my PC's, phone, Ipad, and Kindle, and have my reading positions and notes sync. Only Amazon and Kindle really do this well, nobody else is even close.
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As far as being able to 'liberate' and really own my own books that I buy from Amazon, yes I still do that too. I get the serial off my PW4, put it into the DeDRM add-in in Calibre, and remove the DRM encryption just so I'll have the non-DRM'd files that in the future I can use if I need to. But in general, I don't try to load those books back onto my Kindle device and apps. I just use the Amazon versions to get the benefit of full feature support and syncing with minimum hassle.
Kobo does exactly the same thing. It will sync purchased books between the devices, the apps and their desktop application which is available for Windows and MAC. The only thing that is missing is a Linux application. But, I don't know of a Kindle application for Linux, so the two are the same.

About the only thing I can think of that makes syncing Kobo devices harder is that they don't have 3G or 4G support. The devices will only sync over WiFi, or via the desktop app.

I've read Kobo books using all these methods, multiple e-ink devices, Android app on my phone, iOS app on my iPad, Windows desktop app. The sync happens seamlessly as I swapped between them.
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