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Originally Posted by zenji
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!" ��
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I don't know what you thought would happen? To me, it's logical that when I remove or sign out of an account, stuff disappears. Collections are like a device setting. It's going to reset. Calibre makes it easy to back up and restore most things. You asked for alternative suggestions, and this is the easiest one to implement. Calibre will change your reading life.
Or, you could have looked into the feature on any number of threads in this forum before doing it. This, instead of starting your post off as a rant, and then condescending people's knowledge when offering explanations or whatnot when you don't like the answers from people who are quite experienced in these devices.
Kobo also tells you
here. You can infer that there will be data loss.
If you just want to toot Amazon's horn, then be more upfront about it. Kindles are a nightmare. So, I'll be that person to defend Kobo as this was user error. I've literally never had an issue.
