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Originally Posted by Alyssa Miranda
As a final note, the user's manual for both the Kindle and Nook warn that the device should be electrically disconnected before physically unplugging it from the computer.
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Although I typically remove flash drives without going through all this, and without ill effect, I hesitate to not follow these instructions with the Kindle and Nook.
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Can't speak for Nook or Kindle, but it is important to properly "unmount" the Kobo readers as you've described so I suspect the other 2 are the same. Not doing so can easily corrupt the database on the device and force a wipe/reset to get things back to normal. I think I've read a technical rationale for this behaviour on here, but I can't remember what it was.
Interestingly if you read the directions that come with a flash drive (in my defense, the only reason I did read them was regarding this very question
), these days they will mostly say you can just pull them safely with out unmounting them.