Hi all, I'd like to buy my first ebook reader, a Kobo to be precise, but I'm held back by not really understanding how annotations and highlights are currently manageable outside these devices.
It's essential to me to get annotations and highlights made on Kobo even in the desktop/pc environmen and to be able to edit them on both platforms and then synchronize them.
Unfortunately, reading older posts on this and other forums I think I understood that there is no solution yet..
- My beloved Calibre can import these things from Kobo devices but it can't show them on its viewer except in a separate column. It also cannot return them to the ereader once they have been modified.
- Kobo Desktop and the Kobo environment in general seems to have synchronization problems and delays, and I haven't even figured out if it allows to synchronize side loaded ebooks not purchased in the Kobo Store.... In that case it is unusable for me.
- I have seen there are various free tools that allow you to extract this data from Kobo devices but again they only work in Kobo > PC direction and not Kobo > PC > Kobo.. as I would like.
So... as I said I think there is no a solution at the moment.... That's why, I wanted to open a post to figure out what the news and updates are on the issue.
Is there any news from Kobo on multi-platform management/secronization of this data? Are there any new free tools, perhaps open source, to achieve this? Is there any news in general about the developing of a common metadata protocol that would make it easier to manage, share and synchronize annotations and highlights across platforms?
Until you give me good news I will not buy my Kobo ereader....
