Remote Kindle Indexing on PC.

[Alisa]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Because you download the book to your Kindle AND you download the book to your Kindle for [whatever device] app. When you read the book on one device and sychronize... you can open the book on the other device and pick up reading from the same place you left off on the other device. No muss, no fuss... you know... synchronized.

Yep. Whispersync != index. You're syncing last place read which is a very small bit of data, as well as any other book marks, highlights and notes.

[emalvick]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

But why does Amazon go on about syncing between different apps?

In any case this not about copying to 20 different computer but just to 1 to get indexed it.


"Each device/app won't necessarily have the same books or other content, so the indexes wouldn't be the same either".

I just said you would do the WHOLE thing en masse for say a 1000 books in one go to just 1 pc and back.

i.e you would organize/sort the whole think on pc4k and copy to kindle once perfection achieved.

The sync is so that if you read a book on your Kindle while on the road but then perhaps you read it on your PC when at home, the Sync will keep your page and annotations in sync. However, the actual book files are different on each device (because of the DRM).

As for the earlier item I mentioned about different books on each device, that is more because it is possible for a user to choose different books for different devices and not necessarily having the exact same library on each device as you have suggested. There is nothing wrong with your suggestion, I am only talking about the logistics on a global scale as everyone has the ability to do as they wish.

As Tiersten has mentioned, there is nothing wrong about what you are wishing it to do. It really is just that it isn't implemented, yet. I was just pointing out the complexities in what otherwise seems like a basic way to go.

As with DRM in other industries (e.g. music, etc). It is there to deter the would be pirates, but in reality it causes more headaches for those like yourself whom just want to utilize what they purchased in a couple of places through simple copy and paste type actions. It's unfortunate that's the way it is.

[daffy4u]

vugtitan

This will all become clearer to you once you receive your Kindle. You can experiment and try to move books between your Kindle and the various apps and see what happens.

If you're really concerned about indexing you can add your books in the evening before you go to bed. Make sure your Kindle in connected to power and let it index overnight. My understanding that you shouldn't add more than a couple of hundred books at a time as the time to index will vary based upon how many books you add.

I don't keep a lot of books on my Kindle at one time, so indexing hasn't really been an issue for me.