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Originally Posted by Renate
Seriously, UMS is ancient, but more especially, bad technology.
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No, it's different technology. All SD cards and USB memory sticks and SATA, IDE or native USB HDD /SSD use USB MS.
ADB is much faster than regular MTP with an MTP device. I've used it on console. Disadvantage is the host OS has to support the Filesystem. It's much better when NTFS or Ext4 is used rather than FAT32 or exFAT. Linux copes with NTFS (older or newer) fine. Mac needs 3rd party tools for NTFS or Ext4. I do have one Windows XP with Ext2 support, but mostly MS Windows didn't support any Ext version. This is why most gadgets use FAT32 or exFAT if not using MTP or networking. Usually the OS is on a separate Ext format partition.
Amazon Kindle doesn't have the important database on a user accessible connection, that's why it's a walled garden and you rely on Amazon for Series, Collections etc. The Kobo has the database accessible. The title and author is set by the Kobo when it imports, but subsequently a 3rd party like calibre can set also subtitle, collection(s) and series after the book is imported. Thus 2 connects are required. A Kindle needs jailbroken.
However MTP is abysmal for directory/folder listing or browsing and only works flexibility on MS Windows. It also will time-out. It's not better, just different.