All good now.
I uninstalled previous and installed the new reader extension (both using KEM - I love it ), tested with tab closing = works OK, tested with closing KM = works OK too.
Just for the sake of testing in the spirit of the first post, I selected everything to read on a longest blog I could find, let it read for awhile and I closed KM. Did the same with reading from one of the tabs
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