i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
How do you reconcile the Kobo wanting to sync reading position every time you turn it on? Or is that not a problem with your workflow?
I have issues in my own app and some other containers where the kobo is slow to upload reading stats, so every time my kobo wakes up, it throws up a dialog asking if I want to skip to my latest reading position. If I pick yes, it dumps me back 10-20 pages.
It’s easy enough to say no but it’s so annoying to have a delayed dialog every time I wake the thing up.
n2024@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a problem for me, because my sync is manual, not automatic. I assigned it to a gesture (tap the top-right corner): wifi on, sync, done. Waking the device doesn’t trigger anything, so I never get that “jump to latest position?” dialog.
I did it this way mainly for battery, I don’t want wifi turning on every time the Kobo wakes up. And I push my position at the end of my reading, so the server is always up to date and there’s nothing stale to pull next time.
I did think about auto-syncing when you open a book, but haven’t done it yet, partly for the reasons you mention. For now the manual gesture works well for me.