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I feel like an idiot but for the life of me I can't find the answer to this question.

Whispernet syncs your reading location across all books right? How do you reset that location? If I want to read a book for the second time if I try to sync to the furthest page read it will push me to the last page because that's the furthest I've read.

Am I doomed to only read Kindle books once?

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Hi Dan! Welcome to the site! – Krisztian Gyuris♦ May 3 at 14:39

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I believe you can only do this by switching-off the sync between the devices you use. From the Kindle support page:

Syncing Material Across Your Devices

If you read the same Kindle Store book across multiple Kindles, you'll find Whispersync makes it easy for you to switch back and forth. Whispersync synchronizes the bookmarks and furthest page read among devices registered to the same account. Whispersync is on by default to ensure a seamless reading experience for a book read across multiple Kindles.

To turn Whispersync off:

  1. Visit the Manage Your Kindle page.
  2. Scroll down to "Manage synchronization between devices. Learn more." and select "Learn more."
  3. Select "Turn Synchronization off."

Once you turn synchronization off, your books will still open to the last page read on that device, but Whispersync will no longer sync bookmarks or the furthest page read with other devices. If you would like to sync the book manually, press the Menu button and select "Sync to Furthest Page Read."

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Not to offend but that answer doesn't help at all. I turned it off and clicked sync and it still asks to go to some page way off in the end of the book. The truth is there is no way for you to use whispersync when your re-reading a book. Contacting amazon will only have them reset it manually for that book. Considering the very fact you have to email the company to reread a book is so asinine the iBook looks so much better. – Devin Weaver Jul 14 at 21:26
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This can be done by turning syncing off, removing the book in question from your device, re-adding it, and then turning sync back on. Turning syncing off will remove Amazon's record of the furtherest location of your book, then remove it from your Kindle will flush the local record.

Syncing Material Across Your Devices

To turn Whispersync off:

  1. Visit "Your Account" page on amazon.com.
  2. Go to "Manage Your Kindle" under "Digital Content" section.
  3. Scroll down to "Manage synchronization between devices. Learn more." and select "Learn more."
  4. Select "Turn Synchronization off."
  5. Make sure all your device locations are at or before the location you want to set in the book.
  6. On a device which has the book in the right location, delete the book (you should write down the current location, just in case).
  7. On the same device, go to the archive and re-add the book.
  8. Open the book up (it should be in the same location as before).
  9. Then turn synchronization back on.
  10. Hit the manual sync on the device.

Kindle should tell you that "You are currently at the furthest read location across all your devices".

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Sadly this did not work for me (on iPad and iPhone) - anyone have an update to this that does work?

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