I also don’t like the popup nagging about being at a further reading position on a different device, especially when I’m just trying to look something up or compare two different Kindles.Īnother instance when syncing can be a bad thing is if you have multiple Kindles registered to the same account, with more than one person reading books from that account.

It’s also annoying when you have older Kindles that need charged and when doing so it brings the old book to the top of the list on your newer Kindle. One thing I find irritating about Kindles syncing is when you have multiple Kindles it will keep putting whatever book you’re reading on one Kindle at the top of the list on your other Kindles, even if you’re not reading that particular book on those Kindles. I finally decided to turn off device synchronization on my Amazon account and I like it much better that way, especially since I have several Kindles old and new.

I can see why people like Kindle’s Whispersync features and how it could come in handy when reading the same book on multiple devices, or when switching between reading an ebook and listening to an audiobook, but how many people really do that on a regular basis?

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