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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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That's true David. I should have clarified that I meant not just the existence of apps for the leading devices and OS's, but consistent reliable feature support and data syncing across that entire app ecosystem. I valued syncing of user data--including notes--across all those apps and platforms, including all the books in your library (even books imported from other stores, something Kobo still does not do, but Amazon does).
I did use the Kobo apps on Android, Windows, and the Forma most recently when I still had one. But syncing of notes was unreliable even with just Kobo store books, particularly when the notes were made on the Forma versus on the Android app. Also, there was no accessible cloud version of the notes in the app ecosystem, so there was no easy way to let you extract the content of a web page, or associate it with other content such as the Goodreads social platform (another thing I know that many here could take or leave, but I enjoy using). With the Amazon ecosystem, I can go to read.amazon.com/notebook, load up my notes for a book, then run a free script by
Bookcision over my notes to extract them for exporting to a doc, or I can use the OneNote web clipper. I've also been testing a free and open source academic app called Zotero, for collecting research notes and sources. Together with Amazon ecosystem, this gives a way to get all your notes into a nicely structured database that's accessible online and in your browser. It's searchable, tagged, and just generally more useful and reusable in other contexts. Again, all this made possible by Amazon working to open up their platform with an ecosystem that makes data interchange possible. I know Kobo has some limited cross platform support and data interchange, but I always felt it was lacking, not at the same level.