The databases (which can include a lot more types than documents) sync pretty smartly, you can set the iOS document to only sync a file on demand. It comes with OCR which is handy for those PDFs lacking a searchable text layer. I use DevonThink Pro Office on the Mac and iOS for my research.

While not as flexible or pleasant a reading experience, annotation and highlighting and compatibility are much enhanced. You might consider converting your reading to PDF. If you dropped the Kindle and settled on Mac and iPad you have more options, if using PDF as your format, there’s a whole range of apps which can annotate in a variety of ways. And it’s not particularly an app which is all that good for annotation besides. mobi format for the Kindle app and as you say, there’s limits to the Kindle app on the Mac. If you seek a common format and a common app which runs on all three, which are the prerequisites for syncing the features you outline, there’s only the. I still get ‘Your iCloud is full’ error messages occasionally even with 1Tb free up there. No, and it’s a bummer that Apple haven’t figured a fully reliable way for syncing ePubs and PDFs with the Books app. From googling around a bit, it seems there may be no solution to this issue (I’ve also tried Quora)-so TidBITS is my last hope for intelligent insights, and at least an “Option B” workaround. I know that Apple Books syncs between Mac and iOS but Kindle? I have read and highlighted long chapters on my Kindle-but if the book is not from Amazon, I can’t even see these highlights on my Kindle for Mac app, to say nothing of syncing them to another reader.Īs for Apple Books: I am using calibre to manage my ebook library-if I want to use Books, it seems I need to maintain a separate library just for Books, meaning less cross-application/platform flexibility. Is there any way to achieve this? or is this merely another example for how the corporate world limits academic (etc) freedom (sorry for being polemic I think TidBITS readers will understand my grief, and I believe there are many others out there who’d like to achieve the same thing).

What I’d like-what I should be able to do-is to move back and forth between these platforms and have my highlights, annotations, and reading positions in sync across all of them. not all Amazon ), and on a variety of platforms (Kindle for ease on my eyes, iPad for ease on my back, and Mac for ease on my fingers). I’m an academic reading and studying ebooks, from a variety of sources (i.e.

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