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Originally Posted by rantanplan
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.