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h_nara · 07-31-2023, 08:29 PM

I recently moved away from Kindle and ended up with two Android e-ink devices: first a Hisense Hi Reader pro and then a Boox Page. I love the two devices so far and I use KOReader on both of them to read books. To sync the KOReader book folder on the two devices, I tried Syncthing first. It works ok, able to sync highlights and progress... but, it only syncs when both devices are online. I open them side by side just to sync.. and that's a bit annoying. I'm looking for a two-way sync solution that doesn't require both device to be online at the same time. I will read on one device, make some highlights, make some progress on some books, then put it down and some time later when I pick up the other device, the updated highlights and progress should be synced. What service does this for android? I know you can probably do something like renting a virtual machine in the cloud and run syncthing server on it.. but that's one more thing to maintain. Any brainless, effortless service available?

07-31-2023, 08:29 PM	#1
h_nara Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2023 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Easiest way to sync a folder between two Android devices? I recently moved away from Kindle and ended up with two Android e-ink devices: first a Hisense Hi Reader pro and then a Boox Page. I love the two devices so far and I use KOReader on both of them to read books. To sync the KOReader book folder on the two devices, I tried Syncthing first. It works ok, able to sync highlights and progress... but, it only syncs when both devices are online. I open them side by side just to sync.. and that's a bit annoying. I'm looking for a two-way sync solution that doesn't require both device to be online at the same time. I will read on one device, make some highlights, make some progress on some books, then put it down and some time later when I pick up the other device, the updated highlights and progress should be synced. What service does this for android? I know you can probably do something like renting a virtual machine in the cloud and run syncthing server on it.. but that's one more thing to maintain. Any brainless, effortless service available?