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I'm not sure the books really have disappeared. I think maybe it's a glitch in the processing.
I had four sideloaded epubs (from the university of adelaide) which weren't showing up with the right covers. When I tried to fix them, they seemed to disappear from the device. Initially they were still showing in the carousel, but when I tried to open one, it crashed and reset the device. When it restarted, the four books had gone.
I tried re-adding one book from Calibre. All four reappeared. They all still have the wrong covers, but they all work and I am leaving well alone. Looks like it ought to be fixed fairly soon.
I don't much care about shelves right now. I didn't lose my Shortlist, but I'm not going to spend any time setting them up when Kobo might change the whole thing at the drop of a hat. I'd like to see the useless upselling garbage removed, or at least hidden a few menus down. (I'm happy to get recommendations and a wish list through the website or desktop, if - and only if - I ask for them, but they are just an annoying, intrusive waste of prime real-estate on the device.)
There are two basic things I'd like to see rock-solid before any more messing around with the UI:
- My wifi has never worked. This means all the wish lists and recommendations in the world are completely worthless. I'm also convinced it's a software issue, given the range of other wifi devices I own, and the fact that it can connect when I turn off all security.
- Get the book reader right. If this is broken, then it doesn't matter how good anything else is, I am not going to buy books from Kobo, and I'm not going to recommend the reader to anyone. If this is good, then it doesn't really matter how terrible anything else is, since this is where I spend 99% of my time. There currently seem to be significant issues with font sizes, paragraph breaks, page turns, hyphenation and foreign (to me!) languages*. Don't try to run when you can't walk.
*I've only experienced the first three, so far. The font size inconsistencies I can live with because I'm only reading one book at a time, and can adjust up and down for the current book. The paragraphing problem seems to have gone away now I've stopped using Rockwell (it looks like it does still try to avoid widows (or is it orphans?), which I don't really want, but isn't too bad), and I don't especially mind the slow page turns (although I might when I get further into the book, if it slows way down like other single-file epubs.)
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