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Originally Posted by zenji
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Your patronising comments are unnecessary. It's a shame because you seem knowledgeable.
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Nor was yours, yet you felt the need to insult those trying to help you. Perhaps you can take your own advice here.
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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).
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It would have been worth adding to that post then, though for the nth time your use case was different than the norm. A fact which for some reason you still seem to want to pretend isn't the case despite multiple people telling you so.
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What are you referring to?
That's a bit controlling, isn't it?
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In your other post you insist this is a bug, you also continue to insist your experience with this is the norm, when it is in fact an outlier.
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6. However, I do need to correct something:
It does actually save bookmarks in sideloaded books
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Interesting, perhaps I mistook it for doing the factory reset. Obviously signing out doesn't remove sideloaded books so good to know bookmarks are preserved, though this is data stored on the device, not on servers.
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7. My logic is this:
a) Kobo knows very well that a major reason people buy the device is because you can put your own books on it (that is the Number 1 reason I myself bought it instead of Kindle)
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Actually you and most people on this forum would be in the minority. Many people who buy an ereader w/ a dedicated ebook shop built in are content to shop from that storefront. They may add library books, which can be done from the current line up of Kobos from the device. Which makes Kobo quite happy as they then have a continued revenue past the purchase of the device.
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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
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frankly it's unconscienable to fail to warn people they will lose all this data simply by signing out - unlike almost any other service you could name (Feel free to name another service on the planet where signing out destroys such significant data)
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Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, likely every other eink ereader company. You've listed Google as an example, but it's an apples to oranges example since w/ Googles offerings it's all stored on their servers where as
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8. I have no evidence of 'database corruption'. Everything was working fine. Indeed, I'd just synced I think. The problem I had is described well here and this is the thread that also offered the "solution" - signing out of Kobo.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4154960
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You have that you were booted out of OD, and that your collections didn't sync.