To people who gave useful advice, thankyou.
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When I sign out of Google, I don't expect to lose all my labels (tags/boxes).
When I sign out of the Kindle app, I don't lose anything.
There are countless other examples.
At the very least, a warning would have been nice - I'd say: basic courtesy.
There's no way I would have signed out.
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Does the word 'collections' or 'shelves' appear in this warning?
"Any reading progress, highlights, or notes since your last sync will be lost."
No it doesn't.
Even though I expect for many of us, collections are more important than highlights and notes.
...Just as it
also doesn't say that
your bookmarks will be retained (and even any words you wrote associated with them).
Indeed, the fact that your
bookmarks are retained makes me wonder why your collections
aren't.
I'm sure someone will leap to the company's defence though**
I'm very open to some genuine IT expert explaining to me why it's technically impossible or just too massively onerous for the company to retain bookmarks but not collections.
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** I notice on forums there's always one or two kind souls who do a better job of defending some company better than any employee ever could. "Well if you don't like the effects Thalidomide have, you can always stop using it! No one forced you to buy a Ford Pinto!" 🤣