The combination launches in June and can mechanically sync progress with the studying platform.
Kobo has announced plans to combine its ereaders and studying apps with the social studying platform StoryGraph in June. StoryGraph is an impartial different to Goodreads that exists exterior of Amazon’s ecosystem and presents customers extra management over their suggestions.
“For lots of us, the very best a part of studying is the group. It is part of how we present up on the earth as readers day-after-day,” Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn stated in an announcement. “That is why I am so enthusiastic about our integration with StoryGraph. We needed to strip away the friction between ending a chapter and monitoring and sharing your progress. Now, Kobo readers can do precisely that, seamlessly.”
When the brand new integration launches in June, Kobo ereaders and studying apps will mechanically sync with related StoryGraph accounts. The combination will replace e-book progress percentages, add books you are presently studying to StoryGraph’s In Progress shelf and mark completed books as “Learn.” Apart from ebooks, the combination can even work with any audiobooks you hearken to via Kobo’s platform.
As a substitute for Amazon’s extra common, however restrictive Kindle ecosystem, it makes a whole lot of sense Kobo would work with StoryGraph. Each corporations are aligned on giving readers extra management over their studying expertise. StoryGraph can also be simply one in every of a number of integrations Kobo presently presents. The corporate’s ereaders have an Instapaper integration for studying saved internet articles and the ability to access files from cloud storage suppliers like Dropbox and Google Drive.
