Can I get a witness? (To an e-book reader that won't lose your page!!)

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by GERGE

Cover she is using might me malfunctioning, like touching the screen, bent, or something like that.

The same with all the e-readers?

[MikeB1972]

Do you have pets or small children?

[Apache]

It may be you. I have never had a problem with losing page locations. But, my wife has this happen all the time. We have both been using the same model ereader also. Maybe the causes are similar to why some people are not able to wear quartz (battery powered) watches.
Apache

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GERGE

I only had this happen to me once or twice. And usually when I put my reader to bag without a cover and accidentally open it. Pretty normal, I guess.

There is probably something wrong with your covers, I use this cheap cover: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultra-Slim...item58bdf8d056

Yes, I think using cheap covers allows the ebook pages to 'travel' when the reader is jostled or moved about.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Yes, I think using cheap covers allows the ebook pages to 'travel' when the reader is jostled or moved about.

I'm not so sure, as I've used cheap covers, as some of my friends, and this problem has not appeared. More than cheap covers, covers which don't have any closure.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've never had this happen on any reader I've owned, and that's quite a few.

Me, neither.

[patrickt]

If you "constantly" lose your place on "every ereader" then the problem would seem to be with the user. Especially since other, such as myself, don't have this problem.

For pure humor I have to congratulate Turtle91 for suggesting an app that works only with EPub and only on Apple devices.

[Ripplinger]

The only time this ever happened to me was when using a sleep cover with a little flap that closes over the edge. When closing or opening the book, unless you pay particular attention to holding the flap, it would brush against the screen flipping the pages.

But with a normal book-type cover without a flap, I've never had a reader lose my page before. But all readers should also have a bookmark function as Tarana said, you could make it a point to set that when closing, then remove it once you resume reading.

[howyoudoin]

I've never lost my page with any of my devices. If it did happen to me, I'd suspect someone was messing with my reader when I leave it lying around.

[John F]

I've had problems with my Kobo not remembering location by a couple of pages. It was a while ago, and I believe it was due to poorly formatted books (and maybe flakey/not robust software).

[bla]

I have learned through bitter experience to manually set a bookmark before closing the current book , in fact I make it a practice to add a quick bookmark every 5 pages or so that way if a sudden crash happens I am only 5 pages max out

[Skinjob]

A lot of the responses are about the Kobo Glo, but you see, that's -my- reader. I wouldn't say I have a huge problem losing the page with it, and I'm more focused on the Sony PRS-600.... which is my wife's reader. So as to what she is doing with it that might trigger a loss of the current page, I can't really say. I can only say she does not like using the reader if it's going to do this, and that's why I am looking for a solution. (The books we're reading on the readers are ePubs, and otherwise work and are formatted properly).

(For the record, I do not consider buying an iPhone a solution to the problem of losing the page on an e-book reader). Bookmarking, which might seem like a reasonable solution, is not going to work. My wife is not a techie and would not know how to do this, or remember how to do it, or remember to do it, even if I showed her.

The other thing is, I can't get her any other reader than a Sony. She likes the physical page turn buttons (and the audio feature).

For those who are saying or suggesting the "problem" is with me or my wife, and therefore nothing can be done... you can't see the forest for the trees. You might just as well have told Apple that nothing can be done about "face dialing" or "butt dialing", so don't bother to implement any technology that, I don't know, "blanks the screen" or whatever when you hold it up to your face.

All I know is neither of us are doing anything unusual with the readers. Picking it up, putting it down, holding it with the cover closed... those are all "usual things". But whether it is due to firmware bugs or user action, either way in 2015, it should be preventable. Perhaps it doesn't happen often enough on the Kobo to bug me, but it happens often enough on the PRS-600 to bug her. Also, I have no pets or small children. I was using her PRS-600 yesterday (I was on page 247), while lying back in a reading chair. At some point I closed the cover, and switched off the sleep mode to get back to my back. It had flipped back to page 9! But the reader functions properly when I am using it.

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by Skinjob

... Bookmarking, which might seem like a reasonable solution, is not going to work. My wife is not a techie and would not know how to do this, or remember how to do it, or remember to do it, even if I showed her.

Bookmarking a page is generally done by simply touching the upper right corner. And that's it. Removing it is the same, touch the upper right corner and the turned page icon goes away. I would think any non-techie could handle and remember that.

[Dulin's Books]

are you changing font size? i havent checked this in years but back in the day people would get confused between actual page number of the book and the virtual page number dependent on font size and reflow.

it's possible on the sony(again havent look at this in along time but i do remember it happening) that if the font size is changed accidentally it looks like you are some actual pages distant from the correct point when you are only virtual pages distant.

as for your above example. i suspect someone accidentally bookmarked page 9. when you were fiddling with it and changing position etc you somehow evoked the bookmark and returned it to that page.

[Skinjob]

As I just discovered, the PRS-600 requires you jump quite a few hoops before it will jump to a saved bookmark (open this menu, open that one, select bookmarked page, etc). So I would rule out the accidental bookmark jump here. I'd also rule out accidental font size change, since the font size is not changing when the page does.

I thank everyone for their input, but the responses lead me to realize the difficulty of resolving this issue if you don't know the cause. So I think I'm going to have to give this some time, and do a better job of trying to understand what is causing the unwanted page jumps in my e-books by paying closer attention to the conditions before it occurs. Its likely to be due to different reasons, since they're very different readers.

e.g. I guessed that at least some of the time, the book cover of the Sony PRS-600 is causing unwanted button presses, perhaps when holding/carrying the reader near the location of where the buttons are located. If this is the primary cause, I might try getting a hold of a Sony T2, stuffing that in a DVD case, and see if that stops the unwanted page jumps.

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

are you changing font size? i havent checked this in years but back in the day people would get confused between actual page number of the book and the virtual page number dependent on font size and reflow.

it's possible on the sony(again havent look at this in along time but i do remember it happening) that if the font size is changed accidentally it looks like you are some actual pages distant from the correct point when you are only virtual pages distant.

as for your above example. i suspect someone accidentally bookmarked page 9. when you were fiddling with it and changing position etc you somehow evoked the bookmark and returned it to that page.