[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Uschiekid

I figured the pin lock was probably available to all devices now. I might get round to updating it one day. The thing is, it's been on the same firmware for close to 3 years without me being annoyed by anything so much as to try to solve it/or keep up with changes to the firmware. And from what I read on here, it wasn't even a particularly admired version. But I just read on it, and it's fine. It hasn't needed a pinhole reset or a factory reset in that time, which to me seems pretty stable. I won't be reading on it that much now, but the pin lock is probably the most important improvement it's lacking, as the one thing my glo WILL be doing, is leaving the house!

If you are happy with a firmware version, then you should stay with it. Personally, I don't use the PIN lock even though I take an ereader with me to a lot of places.

Oh boy, do I feel foolish!!!!

I had even suspected that such a feature might be available via long press, and I swear I had tried it out by adding random annotations, but hadn't seen anything in the long press menu. Of course, now, it works every time
The one reason it may not have worked is, when I was going back in to the book menu yesterday, it wouldn't immediately update the order of the books (I had it filtered to "Reading", with sort as "Recent"). I had been reading a book for awhile, used the top left menu to go back to My Books, and both the order of the books and the percent read didn't update until I went to the home screen and back. It happened a number of times, but of course it immediately updates when I try to reproduce it today. Anyway, if it hadn't updated yet, maybe that's why the annotations hadn't shown as an option. And I was too impatient and just erased the random annotation, without checking at a later period.

I'm not sure what you are saying. But, the Annotations item should be on the menu whenever there is an annotation in the book. There isn't any need to wait for something to happen. The same goes for the sorting. I do the same as you do, and the order is always updated immediately.

Yesterday was a bit of weirdness all day, as the other weird thing that happened was I started to download my pocket archive (it had previously already downloaded my reading section), and I tried to open an article (that appeared to have completed dling), and it opened, I tried to move to the next (2nd) page, and it caused an immediate forced reboot.

This happened 4 times in a row (three times with the same article, and once with another article). It was a quick reboot, but worrying. The wifi didn't have a chance to connect in between, so all the articles might have stayed in the same state during those 4 reboots. Then I gave it time to reconnect properly, as well as a bit longer to keep downloading the articles, and I couldn't reproduce it at all.

If I tried to open one that was visibly downloading, it just asked if I wanted to cancel the download, if I tried to open one that had just stopped showing the download progress (so seemed to be done), it would again ask if I wanted to cancel the dl, and if I waited until the next had started to dl, it would open with no issues and let me flip through the pages, no problem.

It hasn't rebooted in any other context either. So it was probably a weird anomaly, and iirc you don't use pocket, so probably haven't come across anything like that in your testing. Since I won't be doing a similar thing unless I do a factory reset, it's a bit hard to know whether it would happen again or not.

There was a bug with opening some Pocket articles that triggered a reboot. It was fixed a few firmware versions ago. I don't know what firmware it started with. I haven't seen any reports of problems since then and definitely none with version 4.7.10413.