[Corpsegoddess]

Hi guys! Back again with a few more observations and suggestions--again, most about shelves (because I am an obsessive organiser with a touch of OCD).

Observations:

1. Lately, when I've tried doing a search while creating a shelf, it crashes my Kobo back to startup. Not sure why this is happening, but it's pretty much been happening every time.

2. I previously mentioned my "Delayed Write Failed" issue, where the Kobo Desktop software would kick my KT offline. My husband recently bought a KT, so I decided to try and connect my device on his computer and see what happened. I have an older PC (running XP) and his is newer (running Windows 7). When I connected to his, I got a Windows message telling me there was a damaged file on my device, and I should repair it. I thought, "Oh sure, why not? This is new" and gave it a go. After that, the Kobo software on both our PC's doesn't kick me off, but now it can't complete the setup properly. I did a factory reset on my device, uninstalled and reinstalled the Desktop software, and it just hangs on "checking for books". The weird thing is, if I exit the setup, I'm still signed in on the Desktop, it has all my books; it's just that when I go to the e-reader tab, it tries to walk me through the incomplete set-up every time.

I just thought I'd add that bit for the Kobo people, in case they were interested. =P

Which leads me to...

Suggestions: (I know I mentioned some of these before, but I'll reiterate for completeness' sake)

1. OH MY GOD PLEASE FIGURE OUT A WAY TO PRESERVE MY SHELVES SOMEWHERE. Seriously, I have set them up 3 times already, and now I have to do a fourth. Please, Kobo people, PLEASE. Upload them to a cloud. Add them to the Desktop shelves. Put them in my account. Make them a folder in my Kobo. But do something, so I can recover them if they get wiped. I'm about to enact the "Emergency Kobo-against-the-wall System" if I have to set them up again.

2. Give us a different way to view books when creating shelves. I want to be able to sort them by author as well as title. I want to view them in a larger format, like in the library--not just the one view.

3. Give us the slider button option for pagination when creating shelves, not just the arrows. I don't want to have to button-push to page through my whole list.

4. Give us the ability to add books to the shortlist directly from the library-view details menu.

5. Please add the title of the shelf to which I'm adding books, while I'm in it. I've got quite a few shelves created, and when I'm in the "add books" view, it doesn't tell me which shelf I'm in while I'm in it. Sometimes I get a brain fart and forget.

6. In the "details list" for each book in the Library view, please list to which shelves each book is assigned. This would be tremendously helpful for those of us who like to know we've assigned all books to their proper places. =P

I know I'll probably come up with more, but hopefully these will make their way to the devs. All in all, I'm still quite pleased with this update. Thanks, and keep it up!

IMPORTANT EDIT: Okay, so now I seem to have a big problem. I mentioned I just did the factory reset, and my Kobo Desktop setup wasn't completing. Well, it's still not completing. I can sign in to the Desktop, but the setup won't complete. It hangs on the "Step 3" part--"Configuring & Synching--Looking for Books". So, what this means is that I cannot now access my Kobo at all, as it is not able to be set up. Lord. Any suggestions? I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Desktop software, rebooted my PC--all the usual stuff. Gah.