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Originally Posted by robarr
With calibre you can set a book to work almost as an Amazon’ bought one: font thickness control, goodreads integration, sync between devices , collections.
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Bolded part of this quote isn't correct at all! Syncing between devices (using stock software not KOReader) for books bought outside of Kindle Store requires sending and archiving book in Amazon Cloud storage and that process will change both ASIN value and cdeType from EBOK to PDOC (ASIN change "unlinks" the matching between ASIN and Goodreads ID) while Goodreads integration (
as in syncing read progress, sharing highlights) requires that a book uses ASIN value of retail book from Amazon store (which you can retain only if you transfer files via USB, and then you can't have sync between Kindle devices and apps).
So you can't have both features working at the same time for non Kindle Store books.
Manually opening Goodreads "app" / embedded website on your Kindle and then manually searching for books and adding them that way can't really be considered (a working) integration.
And when using KOReader on a Kindle you also don't get to have both Goodreads integration (on the device itself) and progress and notes sync between multiple KOReader instances. What you can have if you include a computer running Calibre into the whole equation is combining Calibre with multiple plugins installed to first pull information from KOReader and then push some of that information to your Goodreads profile.