[mikegetz]

ok ... having a strange issue with the wife's Kobo - and i will state up front that i am a Desktop Engineer by trade, the company's main "hardware" guy ... so a pretty high technical understanding. i read most of the "kobo battery / charging" threads ... none quite cover this.

Anyway,

if her Kobo is in sleep mode and the battery drains enough to trigger the "charge your Kobo" screen, it goes kind of weird after charging. I always pick "keep reading" when charging to keep it from mounting the drives. i see the "I'm Reading" screen, with only "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" showing. I assume that is because sorted by alpha, that is the first book on device memory.
If i let it mount, Calibre sees the 101 books on device memory, and the 140-some that are loaded to the SD card.
The place is lost on the current book she is reading, and shows 1% read ...
After unplugging, the device processes new content, and still shows only the first book in I'm reading. Turning off and powering back up sometimes restores the reading list.

is this normal, acceptable behavior? we have had this for about a month now, and the device has been through 5 or 6 full discharge / recharge cycles. Firmware was updated to 1.7.4 via kobo app (windows) and the device has had 1 factory reset after the db went crazy - i think my wife charged while i was at work and did not unmount the drives when unplugging.

do i need to tell her to make sure that she powers it off when finished reading for the day? she tends to just set it down and let sleep mode kick in.