[MicheleBS]

Originally Posted by davidfor

No, that bug has not been fixed.

@MicheleBS: I probably should have mentioned this bug. When you create a highlight, the position in the book is stored and displayed. For an epub, this is the chapter name where the annotation is, and the percentage into the book (though it has "in chapter" afterwards).

Spoiler:

There is a very long-standing bug that means the position is messed up when the book is reopened and the annotations file is read. The information in the file and the database are merged. Unfortunately, it messes up the location info. The annotation will display in the correct place in the book, but the annotations list will show the chapter the book opened to as the location and zero for the percent. That makes it look like all the annotations are in the same chapter.

This is a very annoying bug that has been around for a very long time and Kobo has shown no interest in fixing (thought I haven't hassled them for a while). A workaround is to replace the "Annotations" directory with a file of the same name. That way the annotations files are not created and when the books are reopened, the locations info isn't wiped.

How important this is to you depends on how you use annotations. I mainly use them to mark something to fix or look up when I'm at my computer. And I usually delete them after this. For your use, the positions might be more useful.

And just in case you don't know, if a book has annotations, when you long press on the book in the library list or the home screen, the menu will have "Annotations" at the bottom. That opens the annotations list without opening the book. You can also use the search to search all annotations.

Thank you davidfor for such a detailed explanation; very useful.

Luckily, I don't pay much attention to the details of the Annotations (chapter and percentage), also because the articles I create and save to my Aura in form of .epubs are usually quite brief, and consist to only a unique chapter.

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Anyway, this morning I tried to move an .annot file to the correct location within the Annotations folder, to match the location of the epubs, but still I couldn't see the Annotations opening the article.

Maybe this is because, as you wrote, the article has to be re-opened at least one time, after moving the .annot

I will try again, in the next hours. Hopefully, I will understand such a (Ko)behaviour better.