My Kobo Touch was at appx. 90% battery charge when I suddenly encountered a black screen that stated the battery was too low and that I needed to plug it into the charger.

Background: The battery on my Kobo Touch has always seemed to discharge rather fast, though I never reported this. I can fully charge it and read appx. Two hours and it will be down to between 80-90%. I expect that with my iPad, but it seems a bit too fast of a discharge with my Kobo Touch.

What happened: I wanted to see if I could download the Washington Post so I went to the Kobo Store. My Kobo Touch didn't want to connect to the WiFi. (Side note, I've consistently had trouble with my Kobo Touch taking for ever to wakeup the WiFi connection. I'm not using Airplane Mode so I'm assuming it puts itself into sleep mode. Anyway it finally awoke and I connected to the Store. The Store front is lacking BTW as I could not find any magazine or newspaper sections. It looks rather primitive.) I did a search for Washington Post and it returned everything but that--mostly unrelated novels that contained neither "Washington" nor "Post" in the title. As I was trying to page through the search returned items the Kobo Touch started acting extremely sluggish then suddenly the Black Screen of Death occurred. I slid the Power button to the right and the Kobo Touch turned itself on and shows the battery level at appx. 90% just like it was prior to the crash. So far it continues to work well but I'm staying out of the store for now!