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Originally Posted by ReaderMan
I am thinking of either returning this Kobo or if that doesnt work, sell it at a loss and then get a Kindle Scribe 1st gen, because apparently it can sync sideloaded ebooks, while the Kobo just doesnt want to.
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IIRC, Amazon and Pocketbook are the only two major brands that have a sync system for content that is not bought from their store. Amazon's is through their Whispersync service where you upload your content with
Send to Kindle.
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It has Google Drive, but no way to upload your books on it and read them there....
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Kobo has
official support for Google Drive to get content onto your ereader, but it does not have a way to sync progress for that content.
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1. First of all, do you have to pay Amazon to sync your sideloaded ebooks on other devices? Or does it just work?
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No fees, generally. There used to be fees for devices that had cellular connectivity but most of those are offline due to the near global 3G shutdowns. Any loading/sync of Personal Documents over WiFi is free.
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I will read mostly mobi and azw books, converting with Calibre via send to device, assuming that works well.
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Skip MOBI. It's ancient and limited and hasn't been needed on a Kindle made in well over a decade. Use AZW3 for direct loading on to the Kindle, and keep EPUB for uploading with Send to Kindle. Note that content you load over USB will not sync progress, only StK uploads.
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Some PDF's but I can just export those with the annotations, it's fine. Except one user told me that the Kindle only syncs epubs and pdfs, but I didn't know that Kindle works with epub, so that's kind of confusing to me. How plug and play is the Kindle sync method? Does it work well?
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There are multiple systems on the Kindle Scribe that you need to keep mentally separate. Send to Kindle is docs like any other Kindle, except fixed format documents can be written on. Those annotations don't sync to non-Scribe Kindles, but you can export your annotated documents via email to get to them outside of Amazon.
Notebooks on the Scribe are completely separate from the rest of the Kindle ecosystem and work completely different than document uploads. Notebooks are freehand writing only, on top of Amazon-provided templates only. There are no structured drawing tools at all, only copy/cut/paste.
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3. I want to see my annotations and highlights IN BOOK, does the Scribe do that? Because I can download my annotations with Calibre, but they show separately, not naturally, alongside the rest of the book. If I could somehow get Calibre to transfer the book with the annotations, highlights, bookmarks still in there, but readable on the PC, I probably wouldn't need to switch to the Kindle.
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The Scribe does highlights and notes on ebooks just like every other Kindle, only adding the ability to make handwritten Sticky Notes in the same place that other Kindles can only do typed.
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Some things may be obvious to you, but not to me, obviously, since I thought any ereader has the sync feature...
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Like I wrote earlier, most brands don't have user-content sync. It's best to approach devices without expectations on what they can do. Only expect features that are clearly specified. Similar to how quite a few people assume any USB-C port could have all sorts of features and functions, yet the base spec is only 5v@3A of power and USB 2.0 data, nothing more. USB 3 speeds, video out, audio out, Thunderbolt, etc. are all optional and up to the device maker to include or not.