Can books that are side loaded to a Kobo be synced on several devices?

Asked by garydale (216

) June 8th, 2013

I have several devices. Some for home and some for work. I carry an iPhone with me all the time and I have an iPad that I use at home. At work I have a Samsung Galaxy and I also use it for travel. I have iBooks on both of my Apple devices and Kobo and Kindle on all devices. Most books I have are in epub format so if I want to read the books across the iPad and iPhone that is okay. I can have it on all devices if I convert them to mobi files and use on the Kindle but that is a good bit of work. I have sideloaded to Kobo a few times but I cannot get the books to sync across all my devices with Kobo. Does anyone know if this is possible? And if it is, how do I do it?

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To sync: no. iBooks will sync with ios devices, Kindle’s with their mobi files, but if you’re looking for a sync solution over all devices, that tech doesn’t exist yet. It would be super-cool, but it will probably never happen. (Amazon likes their proprietary formats, as does Apple.)

However, as you said: ”...convert them to mobi files and use on the Kindle but that is a good bit of work” – download Calibre – It converts to all formats, and takes mere seconds. Hope that helps; others may have more to add, but I’m super-sleepy. You can PM me if you want and I can explain in more depth, but I think I covered it.

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Thank you. I have been doing this on Calibre already but the conversion is never seamless. Some words come out screwy. I like how iBooks works but it won’t sync on Android. So I guess Kindle conversion is the only way. It works but I want to spoil myself…!

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