kindle app sync bookmarks between devices

“For example, we noticed that readers were tapping pages backwards and forwards in frequent succession, likely trying to flip back and forth between pages and reference different parts of a book. Amazon also says it uses the specific data here to power its “Reading Insights” features for tracking reading goals and celebrating milestones (sort of like fitness tracking, but for reading).Ī more compelling answer is that Amazon uses insights from the data it collects to improve the Kindle software as a whole. By tracking when you turn pages and which books you’re reading, Amazon says it can properly track where you are in a book and keep that data in sync. The main feature Amazon claims it needs the data for is the Kindle’s “Whispersync” functionality that allows for a reader to sync their exact place in a book between different devices, along with notes, highlights, and bookmarks. It turns out that Amazon has a few answers to that, some more convincing than others. I just got my data back and there are 90K rows of this /wVCSXCTVwv- Adrianne Jeffries January 28, 2020

Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle.

Kindle app sync bookmarks between devices