10 Answers2026-07-27
Shared reading experiences for a fandom. I am part of a book club and we read books on our Kindles and use a private Goodreads group for our shared reading experience. We can add notes and highlights to our eBooks and if enabled, other club members can see the most popular parts of the book as well as their friends’ highlights. All highlights are synced to the members’ devices whether they added them on their e-reader or laptop. Thus, my highlighted quotes are synced and I can access them when I write my discussion post for the book club. Shared reading becomes a little less solitary thanks to this technology.
7 Answers2025-08-11
Hi, Just like you, I have a requirement that must be met: no matter which device I use to read, my reading progress can be recorded automatically, and I won't have to trouble myself to flip back to the page I stopped at when I switch devices. I know Kobo has a mobile app, but can it implement functions like cross-device reading progress sync, just like the Kindle app? Did you ever get an answer to the question you asked earlier?
9 Answers2025-07-08
What is the emotional core of wanting sync? For me it has always been a fear of not being able to find my place again, a fear of discontinuity. But I came to realize that this anxiety could be alleviated not by improved technology, but by a change in habit. I now always try to finish reading a section at a chapter break. If that isn’t possible, I just make a quick note of some unique phrase or other near where I shall pick up again, and then off I go. Our brains are amazing pattern-matching machines. I have trained mine to remember where I left off, and if that doesn’t work, then I simply skim-read until I pick up where I had got to. Ditching the need to have all digital reading perfectly synched has, for me, turned reading into something that is purely reading once again.
8 Answers2025-08-17
The cloud is your friend. All of your purchased titles are stored in the ‘Cloud’ tab, not just what you have downloaded. In order to view the same list of titles on your devices, you need to make sure you are viewing the correct filter. On your app’s library page, click ‘All’ or ‘Cloud’ at the top of the page instead of ‘Downloaded’. This will show you a list of all of the titles that you own, regardless of whether they are on the device that you are currently using. By syncing your library, you are also syncing the cloud view of your library and your current reading position. Make sure to enable Whispersync on all of your devices and visit the cloud view of your library regularly to click ‘Sync’. New purchases that you make on any device will be reflected in the cloud view of your library on all of your devices. This is not a file transfer situation. This is just a matter of acknowledging that you have a master list of titles in the sky, and each of your devices needs to acknowledge that same list.
9 Answers2025-07-07
Note that if you chose to “Sign in with Apple” and enabled “Hide My Email” for that account, Apple generates a random e-mail address for you to sign up with new services. Note that Apple uses the same Apple ID for all your Apple devices, so if you Sign in with Apple on your iPhone with the “Hide My Email” option enabled, you cannot sign up for new services with the same account using your Android and Signing up directly with the e-mail address that was generated for you instead of using “Sign in with Apple”. The randomly generated e-mail address is actually your technical account identifier. Therefore, it is recommended to use the same method to sign up for new services on all your devices in order to add them to your sync universe.
3 Answers2025-07-15
As a student, I interact daily with numerous PDF files on my tablet, phone, and laptop. Simplest PDF Reader from Google is my default PDF reader because it is so simple. Unfortunately, there is no progress syncing between devices, so I have to resort to Bookmarking individual pages or even taking screenshots of the PDF where I left off. Xodo or Foxit Reader have excellent progress syncing via their cloud services, but I am just a Google guy at heart.
Oddly, PDFs that are opened via Google Drive (in the web interface) do appear to remember where one left off. But that does not translate to the mobile app, apparently a separate program with no sharing of state. I suspect here that Google is missing an opportunity to “get PDF reading right” in a manner consistent with their other syncing data in the air and on various devices. Workarounds will do for now, but I hope that proper syncing of PDFs across devices is something they’ll implement in the near future. For casual readers, Google PDF Reader is fine. But for serious readers of PDFs who wish to read them on multiple devices, it’s not worth it.
7 Answers2025-07-02
The trickier problem to manage than syncing position, is managing the download of the audio files for the chapters. Often, a listener’s position will sync between devices, but the audio file for the current chapter may not download on their second device. Then when they try to play it, it will appear to start at the correct position, but then buffeer for long periods of time before playing. The only way to avoid this problem is to make sure that the next 2-3 chapters of audio download on both of your devices when you start a new book.
Sure. Usually these apps Sync up progress automatically between devices and all, but that only really works for Syncing up position (i.e., where you were listening). Downloading audio for actual chapters has to be done manually and, for reasons mentioned before, most apps don’t automatically Sync audio for you to store locally on your device. So on good Wi-Fi you can get away with downloading chapters on the fly, but in the subway, or on the road in a dead zone, remember to Sync up the chapters for your second device as well.
8 Answers2025-10-09
From a technical point of view, yes, we support cross-device syncing of reading progress, bookmarks and annotations. ReadEra uses cloud backup integration (like Google Drive) for syncing, not a proprietary sync server. The first step is to configure a cloud backup location within the app’s settings (Google Drive or another service). Subsequent backups can then be set up to happen automatically or manually. To sync to another device, you’ll need to download and install ReadEra on that device, sign in with the same cloud account, and then restore from a backup. Note that what’s restored is what’s currently in the local database of the device you’re syncing from. This means that what’s restored will overwrite the local data on the device you’re syncing to. Hence, you want to make sure the device you’re moving from has been backed up recently to avoid losing work in progress. As for how often this overwrite happens, it’s not a continuous, bidirectional merge. Instead, it’s set up for planned, occasional exchanges of devices, not for frequent, ad-hoc switching between devices.
10 Answers2025-09-02
My little trick for reading on both devices is to always stop at the end of a chapter. For some reason the two devices seem to sync better up to a chapter end than to any arbitrary page number. Thus if I finish reading a chapter on my phone, I know that when I pick up my tablet to continue reading, I will start on the correct page for the start of the next chapter. However, if I stop reading in the middle of a chapter on my phone, then there is a 50/50 chance that I will pick up reading on the correct page on my tablet. This is just one of the little idiosyncrasies that I have grown to live with.
4 Answers2025-08-18
Need to read something for free offline? Borrow e-books and graphics from your local library using free app ‘Libby’ or read classics for free on ‘Project Gutenberg’. Also manga is cached for offline reading on ‘Manga Plus’ and e-book EPUB files are read offline with ‘FBReader’. Kindle and Google Play Books also can read books offline too. Simple.