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Old 10-31-2023, 12:24 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
Kobo is (IMHO of course) better in all aspects except that they make it hard to migrate to them. Yes, you can manually copy epubs / kepubs, use Calibre etc but they don't have a cloud for managing your existing library or sync your reading progress. You always have to use workarounds for synching like https://kobli.me/ that may just stop working or reach the end of life.

Amazon at least gives you the option to send them epubs as documents, pocketbook has a 5 GB cloud for existing epubs, Tolino offers 20 GB for existing epubs IIRC. But Kobo doesn't do any of that.
Dunno. I was a Kindle user for a decade, but I never found much use for whispersync or the Kindle cloud. Managing my library with Calibre was easier, finding my place in a book was faster manually than via syncing, and using Dropbox for cloud backup was more useful. So migrating to Kobo didn't change anything at all for me. I switched between two or more Kindles, now I switch between my two Kobos, and it isn't hard to find my place quickly enough. Frankly I never understood the attraction of Amazon cloud, although I did use it in the beginning. Managing my books there was abysmal and whispersync was too slow. YMMV.
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