[kandwo]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I'm not interested in sync, and on rare occasions when I read on more than one device search is often quicker. Sync means connecting to wifi twice and if not at the same time, a 3rd party server.

I'd like better dictionaries and more translation dictionaries, but in terms of finding the next book to read and reading it, none of the popular Android Apps nor KOReader come close to the Kobo "My Books" interface.
Fonts are no issue.

I've been reading books for decades and ebooks since 2002. Android as an OS is terrible and an Android phone or tablet (not dedicated), even with eink, compared to a dedicated Sony / Kindle/ Nook/Kobo is terrible unless there is some app I've not tried? (I'm not going to use Kindle or Kobo app on Android).
Sage is main reader. I might occasionally read on the phone or the 4.7" pocket Y-Ben that lives in jacket, but I can't see the point of sync. I do have loads of ereaders and ereader apps, to test formatting.

Edit:
I control content on all the ereaders and apps from Calibre, except for library loans.

Calibre can sync Kobo reading status and position via Kobo utilities.
I keep the user content the same on my workstation, server and laptop using rsync and also do backups.

I have Wifi enabled on the devices all the time. Of course it would be cumbersome to manually turn wifi on and off every time one needs to sync the position. The compromise is that wifi uses more battery.

Just saying that Android is "terrible" doesn't really say much. What specifically don't you like about it?

Personally, I'd also prefer not to use Android as it's a resource hog. My ideal device would be something like the Kobos but with support for good dictionaries (building in something like goldendict so that it supports morphology).

Originally Posted by DNSB

Can you list those apps and devices that allow you to sync reading positions between multiple devices, apps and, likely, ebook formats? Considering the number of people who have seemingly had issues with syncing reading position, annotations, whatever between two different apps using the same ebook format, it would be interesting to see what you are using. Even using PDF, that seems to be a difficult task.



Can you list a few ereaders that allow you to sync reading position between sideloaded books using the stock apps? On Kobo ereaders, you can use calibre to keep track of the latest read position though that does require a USB connect for the sync.

The crux to syncing reading position seems to be using an identical file on both devices. And for whatever reason, sending the same file with Calibre vs copy-pasting it onto the device will result in different files. This leads to sync difficulties using Koreader on my Libra 2 and an Android device, for instance.

What I do is that I use Syncthing to sync my library across my devices. That way I'm dealing with identical files and there's no problem with reading sync. I let the reading app handle the latter part: Koreader, Alreader X, Moon Reader, etc, have their own way to synchronize reading position.

Koreader stores annotations/notes in a separate file tied to the ebook. This gets synced with the rest of the files in the library. The annotations therefore "automatically" show up on the other devices, too (when reading the same book in Koreader).

I don't do much annotations, though. Koreader uses its own keyboard, which doesn't include a Nordic layout, rendering it pretty much useless for my purposes. And I haven't had the time and energy to explore how to solve the syncing and exporting of them on the other apps.