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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Here is what frostschutz said:
Umount failing at the home screen seems to happen more following an import process. As such, rebooting after an import should reduce the risk of a failed umount and subsequent db corruption.
My main practice prior to reverting was to keep a single book on the device as ePub (I used Overdrive library books) and open that immediately before connection. ePub is able to gracefully dismount.
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Likewise rebooting before should ensure everything is ended. As with much on my list doing both before and after is probably more than is needed, however doing everything on my list doesn’t take much more time than what you’d normally do, especially if you use nickelmenu to assist with the reboot.
Close kepub to Home Screen, reboot using nickelmenu, put Kobo to sleep and wait 5 minutes, connect to computer transfer books, eject and wait to see the Home Screen, unplug, use nickelmenu to reboot. Repeat if you want/need to have Calibre manage the metadata immediately. Overall it’s maybe 15 minutes for two connections, and I’m being pretty generous with the reboot time in that estimate. Similarly you can cut out 10 minutes if you don’t do the wait 5 after putting the Kobo to sleep, and of course the last reboot doesn’t stop you from moving anywhere else with the Kobo so you’re able to use that time to get to a reading chair or wherever.
I’m not pretending 15 minutes is a great time for what should be considerably less. Just giving a reasonable amount of time to wait to connect. Instead of the first reboot you could power off your Kobo since plugging it in to your computer would just start it up and you’d get to the connect screen. Which would also shave those 5 minutes of waiting off at every connect.