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davidfor · 04-10-2013, 02:51 AM

Finishing a book by going past the last page does different things in the database than marking it as finished in the lists.

If you finish the book, its status is changed to finished and the current reading location is set to the first page of the book. Reopening the book will open it at the start of the book. There are probably some other things that happen related to the awards and reading life.

If you mark it as finished from the library list, or the menu in the book, it simply changes the status to finished. The current reading location is not changed. Reopening the book will take you to the last place that was read.

There are two things happening. There is the desire to actually finish the book so that it all gets marked of properly. Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen with the version of the book Terri_B has. And I can understand the desire to finish the book as it would annoy me enough to do all sorts of horrible things.

The other thing is that there is a problem with the book. The last page shouldn't behave like that. The problem should be reported to Kobo so that they can get it fixed. It might be worthwhile forcing a new download of the book in the manner GeoffR described in case it has been fixed or there was a problem when it was downloaded. It would also be interesting to see what the last page looked like in the desktop application or the app on an Android or Apple device.

But, in the "what the hell" bucket, I can think of two things to try. Change the font to the smallest font or setting the margins to the maximum size. Both of these might give an area on the screen that can be pressed to trigger page forward without activating the link.

04-10-2013, 02:51 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Finishing a book by going past the last page does different things in the database than marking it as finished in the lists. If you finish the book, its status is changed to finished and the current reading location is set to the first page of the book. Reopening the book will open it at the start of the book. There are probably some other things that happen related to the awards and reading life. If you mark it as finished from the library list, or the menu in the book, it simply changes the status to finished. The current reading location is not changed. Reopening the book will take you to the last place that was read. There are two things happening. There is the desire to actually finish the book so that it all gets marked of properly. Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen with the version of the book Terri_B has. And I can understand the desire to finish the book as it would annoy me enough to do all sorts of horrible things. The other thing is that there is a problem with the book. The last page shouldn't behave like that. The problem should be reported to Kobo so that they can get it fixed. It might be worthwhile forcing a new download of the book in the manner GeoffR described in case it has been fixed or there was a problem when it was downloaded. It would also be interesting to see what the last page looked like in the desktop application or the app on an Android or Apple device. But, in the "what the hell" bucket, I can think of two things to try. Change the font to the smallest font or setting the margins to the maximum size. Both of these might give an area on the screen that can be pressed to trigger page forward without activating the link.