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Originally Posted by davidfor
From my testing, for the first annotation added to a book, it seems to syncs to the other devices/apps quickly. And it might be that if you only add annotations in one place, they go to the others quickly. But, once you start adding annotations to a book in the other devices or apps, the syncing isn't as quick. I think this is when the time delay is used.
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I have only made annotations recently on my Elipsa. I expect them to propagate across devices as they have done so formerly. Adding annotations from multiple devices just creates chaos when syncing isn’t working.
I understand that syncing is complicated. It always will be. Yesterday I discovered that Apple Books on my Mac and iPad/iPhone was out of sync. It took quite a bit of work to get them synced again (deleting Apple Books on my iPad, shutting off iCloud, then restoring it all, etc). Just last night, my text editor showed conflicts in my archives from old versions of the articles that I wrote years ago, suddenly appearing like iCloud zombies. When whispersync was new, my Kindle refused to sync with the iOS app. They were separate databases. Syncing takes work. It’s easy to create conflicts, which slows things down as you mentioned, or stops syncing entirely as each install becomes unique—as if the syncing forked the database.
This isn’t the first time I’ve posted about Kobo and syncing. You and I have discussed it for years. But Kobo did finally get it right. Before last spring annotations synced across apps and devices within moments. It was glorious. Then I entered a period of troubles and didn’t pay attention to syncing. Now things are broken again. My Clara finally shows all the annotations that aren’t handwritten, but after three days, my Kobo iOS apps still don’t show new annotations from the Elipsa.
Well, the purpose of this thread was to see if I was not alone. I’m not. Others are seeing the same syncing issues. I can’t explain why you aren’t having issues and others are. I guess I’ll reach out to Kobo when I have time to kill.
