[razmichael]

I bought my wife a Kobo a month or so ago and remember having some initial issue with the free books not being shown until I did a reset. Besides this initial issue, we have been very happy with it although there is no doubt that the software has a number of bugs that will hopefully be slowly fixed (nothing that has proven to be a show stopper). Given that the whole family kept trying to use the single reader, I just purchased a second one for myself. I immediately had the same issue with none of the free books (or even the manual) being shown. Checking the device more closely, it was clear that the Database did not contain the free books but they are stored on the device. I tried a number of resets, deleting the SQLite file etc with no luck. Everything else works fine - I can update the library from Kobo or side load from Calibre. I then tried copying over the database from the older Kobo and this then showed (and allowed me to read) the free books, although it caused other issues with bought and borrowed books (not a surprise).

I'm not overly worried about the free books as there are only a few I would like to read and I can get these, however I would still like to solve the issue if anyone has any ideas. I'm getting a bit tired of resetting the date/time and adding a long wireless password into the device. I would be much more frustrated with this if I did not have a basic knowledge of the inner workings and bought the Kobo to just read - I would hope it works right out of the box!

Thanks for anyone who may have an idea.