diff --git a/drizzle/20260727081855_calm_chimera/migration.sql b/drizzle/20260727081855_calm_chimera/migration.sql
index 72acd11c..7792da55 100644
--- a/drizzle/20260727081855_calm_chimera/migration.sql
+++ b/drizzle/20260727081855_calm_chimera/migration.sql
@@ -92,7 +92,42 @@ DELETE FROM `NovelCategory`;--> statement-breakpoint
 DELETE FROM `Chapter`;--> statement-breakpoint
 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `Novel`;--> statement-breakpoint
 ALTER TABLE `__new_Novel` RENAME TO `Novel`;--> statement-breakpoint
-INSERT OR REPLACE INTO `Chapter` SELECT * FROM `__migration_Chapter`;--> statement-breakpoint
+INSERT OR REPLACE INTO `Chapter` (
+	`id`,
+	`novelId`,
+	`path`,
+	`name`,
+	`releaseTime`,
+	`bookmark`,
+	`unread`,
+	`readTime`,
+	`isDownloaded`,
+	`updatedTime`,
+	`chapterNumber`,
+	`page`,
+	`position`,
+	`progress`,
+	`scanlator`,
+	`timeSpent`
+)
+SELECT
+	`id`,
+	`novelId`,
+	`path`,
+	`name`,
+	`releaseTime`,
+	`bookmark`,
+	`unread`,
+	`readTime`,
+	`isDownloaded`,
+	`updatedTime`,
+	`chapterNumber`,
+	`page`,
+	`position`,
+	`progress`,
+	`scanlator`,
+	`timeSpent`
+FROM `__migration_Chapter`;--> statement-breakpoint
 INSERT OR REPLACE INTO `NovelCategory` SELECT * FROM `__migration_NovelCategory`;--> statement-breakpoint
 DROP TABLE `__migration_Novel`;--> statement-breakpoint
 DROP TABLE `__migration_Chapter`;--> statement-breakpoint
diff --git a/src/database/__tests__/db.test.ts b/src/database/__tests__/db.test.ts
index 6c85083f..cdf6c8de 100644
--- a/src/database/__tests__/db.test.ts
+++ b/src/database/__tests__/db.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { schema } from '@database/schema';
 
 import {
   getPendingMigrations,
+  repairChapterMigrationSnapshot,
   repairInterruptedNovelMigration,
   repairMigrationHistory,
   runDatabaseBootstrap,
@@ -464,6 +465,126 @@ describe('production migrations', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it('repairs an interrupted Chapter snapshot missing recent columns', async () => {
+    const sqlite = open({ name: ':memory:' });
+    (sqlite as any).executeAsync ??= sqlite.execute;
+    (sqlite as any).executeRawAsync ??= sqlite.executeRaw;
+    try {
+      createSchema(sqlite);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO Category (id, name, sort)
+        VALUES (1, 'Existing category', 1)
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO Novel (id, path, pluginId, name, inLibrary)
+        VALUES (1, '/interrupted', 'legacy-plugin', 'Interrupted novel', 1)
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO Chapter (
+          id,
+          novelId,
+          path,
+          name,
+          unread,
+          isDownloaded
+        )
+        VALUES (
+          1,
+          1,
+          '/interrupted/chapter-1',
+          'Chapter 1',
+          1,
+          1
+        )
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO NovelCategory (id, novelId, categoryId)
+        VALUES (1, 1, 1)
+      `);
+
+      sqlite.executeSync(
+        'CREATE TABLE __migration_Chapter AS SELECT * FROM Chapter',
+      );
+      sqlite.executeSync('ALTER TABLE Chapter ADD scanlator text');
+      sqlite.executeSync('ALTER TABLE Chapter ADD timeSpent integer DEFAULT 0');
+      sqlite.executeSync(
+        'CREATE TABLE __migration_Novel AS SELECT * FROM Novel',
+      );
+      sqlite.executeSync(
+        'CREATE TABLE __migration_NovelCategory AS SELECT * FROM NovelCategory',
+      );
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        CREATE TABLE __drizzle_migrations (
+          id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+          hash text NOT NULL,
+          created_at numeric,
+          name text,
+          applied_at text
+        )
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO __drizzle_migrations (hash, created_at, name)
+        VALUES ('', 1766417172000, NULL)
+      `);
+
+      repairChapterMigrationSnapshot(sqlite);
+      repairMigrationHistory(sqlite);
+
+      const snapshotColumns = sqlite
+        .executeRawSync('PRAGMA table_info(__migration_Chapter)')
+        .map(column => column[1]);
+      expect(snapshotColumns).toEqual(
+        expect.arrayContaining(['scanlator', 'timeSpent']),
+      );
+
+      const drizzleDb = drizzle(sqlite, { schema });
+      await migrate(drizzleDb, getPendingMigrations(sqlite));
+
+      expect(
+        sqlite.executeSync('SELECT id, name, scanlator, timeSpent FROM Chapter')
+          .rows,
+      ).toEqual([
+        {
+          id: 1,
+          name: 'Chapter 1',
+          scanlator: null,
+          timeSpent: 0,
+        },
+      ]);
+    } finally {
+      sqlite.close();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('preserves snapshot columns while adding a missing timeSpent column', () => {
+    const sqlite = open({ name: ':memory:' });
+    try {
+      createSchema(sqlite);
+      sqlite.executeSync('ALTER TABLE Chapter ADD scanlator text');
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO Novel (id, path, pluginId, name)
+        VALUES (1, '/snapshot', 'legacy-plugin', 'Snapshot novel')
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(`
+        INSERT INTO Chapter (id, novelId, path, name, scanlator)
+        VALUES (1, 1, '/snapshot/chapter-1', 'Chapter 1', 'Group')
+      `);
+      sqlite.executeSync(
+        'CREATE TABLE __migration_Chapter AS SELECT * FROM Chapter',
+      );
+
+      repairChapterMigrationSnapshot(sqlite);
+
+      expect(
+        sqlite.executeSync(
+          'SELECT id, scanlator, timeSpent FROM __migration_Chapter',
+        ).rows,
+      ).toEqual([{ id: 1, scanlator: 'Group', timeSpent: 0 }]);
+    } finally {
+      sqlite.close();
+    }
+  });
+
   it('recovers when Chapter columns exist without migration records', async () => {
     const sqlite = open({ name: ':memory:' });
     (sqlite as any).executeAsync ??= sqlite.execute;
diff --git a/src/database/db.ts b/src/database/db.ts
index 70a39961..560e4c1a 100644
--- a/src/database/db.ts
+++ b/src/database/db.ts
@@ -36,11 +36,13 @@ const TIME_SPENT_MIGRATION_CREATED_AT = 1784471667000;
 const CHAPTER_COLUMN_MIGRATIONS = [
   {
     columnName: 'scanlator',
+    columnDefinition: 'text',
     migrationName: SCANLATOR_MIGRATION_NAME,
     createdAt: SCANLATOR_MIGRATION_CREATED_AT,
   },
   {
     columnName: 'timeSpent',
+    columnDefinition: 'integer DEFAULT 0',
     migrationName: TIME_SPENT_MIGRATION_NAME,
     createdAt: TIME_SPENT_MIGRATION_CREATED_AT,
   },
@@ -108,6 +110,32 @@ export const repairInterruptedNovelMigration = (
   executor.executeSync("ALTER TABLE '__new_Novel' RENAME TO 'Novel';");
 };
 
+/**
+ * Brings a retained Chapter snapshot up to the current schema before an
+ * interrupted migration is retried. Older snapshots can predate columns that
+ * were added to Chapter, so restoring them with the current migration would
+ * otherwise fail with a column-count mismatch.
+ */
+export const repairChapterMigrationSnapshot = (executor: MigrationExecutor) => {
+  const snapshotColumns = executor.executeRawSync(
+    'PRAGMA table_info(__migration_Chapter);',
+  );
+
+  if (snapshotColumns.length === 0) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const snapshotColumnNames = new Set(snapshotColumns.map(row => row[1]));
+  for (const migration of CHAPTER_COLUMN_MIGRATIONS) {
+    if (snapshotColumnNames.has(migration.columnName)) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    executor.executeSync(
+      `ALTER TABLE '__migration_Chapter' ADD COLUMN '${migration.columnName}' ${migration.columnDefinition};`,
+    );
+  }
+};
+
 /**
  * Repairs migration metadata created by older Drizzle versions and interrupted
  * migrations. SQLite cannot add a column conditionally, so an existing column
@@ -232,6 +260,7 @@ export const initializeDatabase = () => {
   if (!initialization) {
     setPragmas(_db);
     repairInterruptedNovelMigration(_db);
+    repairChapterMigrationSnapshot(_db);
     repairMigrationHistory(_db);
     initialization = migrate(drizzleDb, getPendingMigrations(_db)).then(() => {
       runDatabaseBootstrap(_db);