[paulvro]

Thanks all of you for your kind advice. I'm sorry, I was unexpectedly unable to respond these last two days.
First, in general terms: what rather bugs me is the fact that Kobo is so anxious to sell books that it hardly pays any attention at all to those people who spent their hard earned money to purchase a reader in order to just do that, READ. Not to have just purchased an extremely expensive shopping cart of around US$ 250,00 just to fill it with purchases from their company. I read their manual time and again but virtually all is related to how to put your books that you purchased from them into the reader.

Secondly: the fact that it took me close to 2 days in order to all of a sudden see the originally 15 books that I entered (the word "side" I find rather insulting, why "side"? For me it's the "main" way that I intended the Reader for and nothing in their sales pitch indicates that that shouldn't be my main objective otherwise I wouldn't have bought it!) appear on my Reader as being newly added books. I wasn't prepared to have this problem as I followed all instructions well, I always read all instructions before I start using something I'm not familiar with. The confusing part isn't only WHY IT TOOK 2 DAYS but also WHY IT THEN THE NEXT MORNING SUDDENLY WORKED when I turned the Reader on. It's not as if I did an unexplicable thing, the evening before it didn't work until the very moment I turned it off, the next morning the books were suddely there.

And by the way, there is nothing consistent in the "home page" screen: whereas the previous days it showed under the heading "books" that i had entered 15 new books (of which I later erased one because it was a sales folder so after that it showed 14 books), now this whole "books" thing is even no longer on the front (home) page. The left column shows the large front of the book my wife is reading and tells it's 46% read, the middle says 0 books read and 83 hours read with below it the covers of three books in small size and the right side tells me what the Top 50 books are with below it the cover of a book I test-read saying that it's a bookmark and that the book is 1% read. Nowhere any information as to how to see the number of books (14 or 19 ???) that the Reader now recognizes.
I expect that if I do some searching perhaps I'll find a way but in terms of user friendliness I feel bitterly disappointed so far. I'm really shocked to have so little control over something that has cost so much.

Well, I found the list under Read and then Books. A strange way of using words because I don't want to know what is read but how many books are stored in the Reader. However, no total amount of books is mentioned but still the same 3 pages, the same 14 books. Last 5 books that were added still missing in action. Good that I put so few in, how does one know if one has put in several hunderds of books without being foreced to meticulously count them all one by one?

I guess I'll follow the advice to erase these last 5 ones and then try to add them again, perhaps one by one, using Calibre. But it makes me mad that this reader permits itself to simply ignore additions if it finds that perhaps one book may be non-standard or even faulty in it's opinion without even bothering to mention that it's refusing a book or a set of books. An error mention would be the least one could expect! I work with computers since 1983 and to be honest, such a thing I never ever experienced, not even in the earliest days of IBM computing!