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ringerc · 02-24-2011, 07:46 PM

Hi all

My Kobo narrowly escaped a high-speed flight into the wall this morning, as I discovered that it'd lost my page in my book overnight. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that (unlike a print book, or any other eReader) there's no "go to page" feature so you have to page glacially through about 1000 page turns to get back to where you were.

This isn't the first time it's done this when it's run out of battery power. It has enough juice left to draw the low-power image on the display, but for some reason doesn't bother updating syncing the SQLite database. It's infuriating.

I'd love to investigate this myself, and/or implement a "go to page" function, but Nickel is closed-source, the plugin api isn't useful, and there are no headers published anyway. I'm stuck with begging Kobo to fix this, and they're not moving particularly quickly, as "go to page" looks like it's been one of the most-requested features since at least mid last year (see: firmware updates thread).

Is this likely to get fixed? It's a pretty dire issue for a dedicated reading device. Either remember my page, or let me remember it and GO TO IT.

02-24-2011, 07:46 PM	#1
ringerc Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 64 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo	Losing my page Hi all My Kobo narrowly escaped a high-speed flight into the wall this morning, as I discovered that it'd lost my page in my book overnight. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that (unlike a print book, or any other eReader) there's no "go to page" feature so you have to page glacially through about 1000 page turns to get back to where you were. This isn't the first time it's done this when it's run out of battery power. It has enough juice left to draw the low-power image on the display, but for some reason doesn't bother updating syncing the SQLite database. It's infuriating. I'd love to investigate this myself, and/or implement a "go to page" function, but Nickel is closed-source, the plugin api isn't useful, and there are no headers published anyway. I'm stuck with begging Kobo to fix this, and they're not moving particularly quickly, as "go to page" looks like it's been one of the most-requested features since at least mid last year (see: firmware updates thread). Is this likely to get fixed? It's a pretty dire issue for a dedicated reading device. Either remember my page, or let me remember it and GO TO IT.