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Originally Posted by Quoth
Sync to what? Amazon only syncs to other Amazon. An app on phone or PC isn't much use really if you are reading on ereader and wanting your annotations for some purpose/
The most useful thing is EXPORT of highlights & annotations, also setting ebook metadata. Kobo does that better than Amazon.
I've had Kobo & Amazon. I've multiple devices I manage with Calibre. I personally find no value in Sync compared to export.
The Scribe is a very walled garden and MTP, so more locked to Amazon than other Kindles. Amazon has a tendency to accidentally delete sideloaded content.
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I mean, the fact that you can see your book with highlights on it, means you can can also see the rest of the page, which means it is an amazing learning tool. Having just the extracted highlights without seeing the rest of the page is kind of....useless, at least for learning. Sure, you can ultimately search, like it's 1995, for the words and you get to the same place on the PC, but it just takes far longer. Also the Kindle has an even better export system for the sideloaded content accesed through send to Kindle. I just realized that now, with my old Kindle, never used that feature. On the Kobo you get Koreader without jailbreaking which will be next to impossible on the Scribe, so there are tradeoffs, but let's not pretend that exporting is the same as sync.
I just dont get why there isnt a software that can just do this very job: extract the files WITH the annotations and highlights built in and just work. Or at least one that can mash up the html from the extracted ones and the ebook file and have them work.
Although yes, I agree with you about Kindle products ultimately belonging to Amazon and they could just pull the plug on sideloading content alltogether, because they are Amazon and I don't like being walled in, but lately, with epub working with send to Kindle, it seems they are going in the opossite direction.