10 Réponses2025-07-29
Yes, it’s a blessing and a curse for series readers. Free long series, but long waits between volumes. My advice? Place holds on the entire series when you finally determine you want to read a very long series. Then, they’ll come to you over time, typically in a very staggered fashion, unless you’re reading extremely slowly. Thus, you can actually read a very long series rather quickly, assuming you place holds on the entire series as soon as you decide you want to read it. Don’t wait until you’ve finished reading the first book and then place a hold on the second. You’ll be stuck waiting 12 weeks for the second book while the momentum from the first has faded. That’s not how you want to read a series. Plan your reading of a series as you would a game of chess.
8 Réponses2025-08-17
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.
5 Réponses2025-07-08
Make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into before you sync your Kindle to Goodreads, because by enabling this feature you’ll be sharing your reading progress (and, thus, your reading habits and how fast you read) with Amazon’s social platform. This means that, in addition to being able to see your own progress, your friends list will be able to see when you’re reading a certain book. Goodreads has a lot of privacy settings for things like this, but they can be very granular and sort of confusing. So, my take is that, if you do end up enabling this, you should go into your Goodreads privacy settings and see who can see your updates. If you’re not really into the social part of Goodreads, you might even want to set your reading activity to “Only Me”. The convenience of having your Kindle update your Goodreads account automatically is not worth sharing every single page turn with the world unless you’re really into that sort of thing.
11 Réponses2025-12-25
Organizing a large library on the Paperwhite is greatly improved with Collections!. After moving all your books to the device, take some time to organize them into Collections on the device or on the “Manage Your Content & Devices” website. You can organize purchased books as well as personal documents into the same Collection (such as a bookshelf). It isn’t until you organize the thousands of books that you transferred to the device that you can say that you have completed the transfer process. Organizing on the website is much faster than organizing on the device. Select the books you wish to add to a collection, click “Add to Collection” and then select or create a collection. Note that Collections organized on the Amazon device sync to other Amazon-enabled devices where you have purchased books. So in short, this feature turns a mess of unorganized files into a real library of your personal e-books.
10 Réponses2026-07-27
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.
6 Réponses2025-07-06
Remember the storage capacity of your Kindle. A base Kindle has 8GB of storage. When you transfer a large Google Play library of books with images, be prepared for it to fill up very quickly. You need to be realistic about how many books you can transfer to your Kindle. Perhaps you will have to choose between purchasing and downloading other books, or purchase a Kindle with more storage. Side-loaded books also do not get the benefit of Amazon’s Whispersync service for notes and highlights between devices, unless you use the ‘Send to Kindle’ service. The annotations you put in a side-loaded book are stuck on that one device.
8 Réponses2025-08-03
converting ebooks was a game-changer for me. The simplest method I found is using Calibre, a free ebook management tool. Just install it, add your Kindle books, and convert them to EPUB format, which Kobo supports. Make sure to remove DRM from your Kindle books first using tools like DeDRM plugin for Calibre. Once converted, transfer the EPUB files to your Kobo via USB. It’s straightforward and works like a charm. I also recommend checking file compatibility because some complex formats might need tweaking. Calibre’s conversion settings let you adjust layout and metadata, which is handy for keeping your library organized.
9 Réponses2025-07-08
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 Réponses2025-08-10
Does Kindle sync page positions with Kindle copies loaded on other devices (e.g. Libby app on a phone)? I would need this to work as a separate reading experience from my current Kindle reading, but have it remember my place between uses (reading on phone while out and about, and then on Kindle at home).
6 Réponses2025-08-05
I have my ebook collection managed in much the same way I managed my music collection during the iPod era: as a central hub with manual transfers between the hub and other locations. So my ebook collection is managed by Calibre on my desktop. I sync my Kobo by plugging it in and transferring books. I sync a handful of books to my phone by saving a disk copy of them in Calibre and then copying the saved books to a Dropbox folder on my phone. Any edits made to books on one device do not get propagated to other devices. This approach has the big advantage of not causing any headaches, and no chance of ebook collection corruption. It also means that Calibre runs very fast on my desktop, because the hub for my ebook collection is on a local SSD. The only ‘cost’ is some manual work, which I find easy to manage for a collection of less than 10,000 books.