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Originally Posted by Solicitous
So with the Kobo your current page is not written to file? ie: cached? So if you are reading multiple books and the battery goes dead flat you lose the current page on all books being read?
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When I think about it, that may have been in the original firmware only. I wasn't in full debug mode, so I may not be remembering this exactly right, but a couple of times I had read a bunch over several days and hadn't paid attention to the battery level (expecting it to be somewhere close to the claimed value), then when I came back the next day the Kobo wouldn't turn on. I don't remember if I had powered off each time or just let it sit (no auto-power-off in those days!). I charged up and all was well except my book was back to an earlier chapter, probably where I had last powered down. If I am remembering right, that would mean that the initial firmware didn't keep track of the current page at page turns. But I think it only affected the book I was actively reading at that point - once you return to a menu to choose another book, your place should be kept safely. Probably. Unless the current positions are in volatile memory and die with the battery...surely not.
I don't know if the current firmware behaves this way. The auto-sleep function should pretty much prevent this problem if the battery dies between reading sessions, assuming it caches the current position, but you might be at risk if it dies while you're reading.
I imagine if a Kobo engineer reads this he's likely to go "idiot user, that stuff can't happen that way!" And he might be right, but I'm pretty sure that's the way most of it went.