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Originally Posted by MGlitch
and were capable of taking information given to you in that post and applying it here as well then you wouldn't be so lost.
But since you clearly lack that ability
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When you sync your Kobo, it transmits (that's fancy IT talk for sends)
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it's likely your devices database (a database is fancy IT talk for a means to store information)
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perhaps don't make declarative statements when you don't understand what's going on with your device.
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Your patronising comments are unnecessary. It's a shame because you seem knowledgeable.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Perhaps if you hadn't made duplicate posts for the same issue
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They are not duplicates. It's justifiable/reasonable to separate them into different posts. The other post is about the OVERDRIVE issue, not the signing-out-destruction.
It is worth a separate post and other people on here have had that exact issue:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4154960
(That's where I got the advice to sign out).
The destruction is mentioned in the Overdrive post because I felt it was v important people
know that to avoid the same grief. Perhaps though I should have deleted that part just to ensure it wasn't regarded as a duplicate? Bad luck to those people, yeah?
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
and were capable of taking information given to you
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I am already looking into the solutions offered to prevent a repeat of this using Calibre (which I do use) and will check the sticky.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
perhaps don't make declarative statements when you don't understand what's going on with your device.
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What are you referring to?
That's a bit controlling, isn't it?
I would honestly regard myself as a medium-level user.
I have managed to install Koreader and Plato, install Kobo uncaged and use it even on an old XP machine, and edit the nickelmenu etc.
5. Thanks for the technical info anyway - good base-level info to know!
6. However, I do need to correct something:
It does actually save bookmarks in sideloaded books
7. My logic is this:
a) Kobo knows a major reason people buy it is because you can put your own books on it (My number ONE reason - I would NOT have bought it otherwise. Indeed: I've bought ONE Kobo book in my life - and before I got the device!)
b) Kobo provides the 'Collection' feature to be used
c) They can save bookmarks for the users own (non-Kobo-store) books
d) Given all the above, I think its reasonable to save the info about what book is assigned to what collection
e) But more importantly: it's unconscionable to fail to warn people they will lose all this data simply by signing out - unlike almost any other service you could name . By the way we are talking about adding a couple of words to the interface here!
(Feel free to name another service/product on the planet where signing out destroys such significant data)
But none of this matters to some people, because for some strange reason, some people are always going to defend the company/manufacturer. I have no idea why they have this bias - maybe they are businesspeople. But that just seems to be the kneejerk reaction of about 10% of people on forums.