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Old 06-22-2022, 10:50 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
I have two friends who both own kindles. They just want to read their books and they use both the kindle and the kindle app, both sync to last know reading position. I use two kobo’s, a big one at home and a smaller one in my handbag. I have to manually search to get to my latest reading position when I switch devices.
I have several friends and co-workers who own Kobo ereaders and also use the Kobo app on iOS and Android. A book purchased from Kobo and downloaded by the ereaders and apps will synchronize the reading position so I see no real advantage to using a Kindle under those circumstances.

This does not happen with books not purchased from Kobo so a point in favour of Amazon though that does require me to use email/Send to Kindle so Amazon has a copy of the book. Since my personal preference for 90% of my books is to sideload via USB, neither Kobo nor Amazon will synchronize reading position between devices.

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Also Amazon is much easier to deal with than Kobo and I know that from experience. As much as I love my kobo e-readers I don’t buy books from Kobo anymore and I certainly wouldn’t recommend them to anyone.
In my experience, I haven't found it any more difficult to deal with Amazon or Kobo other than the time that my ebooks were booted from Amazon.com to Amazon.ca which results in a 6 hour phone call trying to convince the $%^&*}s that I wanted either a full refund on or the replacement of the ebooks that were removed from my account with copies that were from publishers who had the Canadian publishing rights. An experience that I ranked up with dealing with Beastly Tel back in the days of yore for unpleasantness.

As usual, YMMV.
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