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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
So basically theres no real evidence that its stored in iCloud somewhere. I don’t mind if it is, as long as it isn't taking space from my normal iCloud storage. I always pull from iCloud when needing to do a new sync, but when the book is then “registered” in a second device, it still requires a separate download. so what comes from iCloud is the book title/cover, bookmarks, highlights, last location etc, but the book itself still needs to be downloaded. Surely if the book was stored in iCloud, it would not then require a further download? Anyway thats what I thought was coming from the original source (dropbox, for me)
If you look at the screenie, you can see that my iPad Hyphen has downloaded a *link* to the current book I am reading on my iP7... Hyphen knows what the book is, and where I am up to but I still need to download it as a separate action.
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Books with that download icon/link are stored on iCloud. They're just not downloaded automatically to your devices to save space/local storage on your device. The full library sync is actually a feature mentioned on the app's description.
You do the import once (e.g. from Dropbox), the ebook gets uploaded to iCloud and subsequent downloads to other devices using the download link you see are all coming from iCloud.
So yes, Hyphen does use iCloud storage.
Most text-only books are pretty small though. I've got ~200 books on Hyphen and it's using 138.7 MB on iCloud. Marvin 3 which only syncs bookmarks and reading position, is only using 43.1 MB on iCloud when its library has ~600 books.