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Tanzaku · 11-20-2011, 10:01 AM

Seems like the carousel is pretty universally getting trounced, but I'm finding it a lot more useful than I thought I would. In fact, thumbs up.

Now that I have 1000+ books, 100 albums of music, a couple hundred PDFs in my personal docs section, and 40 apps, I can see the logic of the carousel. It's not useful at all for finding something — but it is fantastic at helping me find a recent something. It reminds me of the "Recent documents" area on a Windows computer — a useless filing system, but a handy way to get back to something you were doing an hour ago.

In particular, I'm loving that the carousel is agnostic — books, apps, music, documents, web pages. That's really handy.

BTW, I also see the carousel being half of a two-part strategy. The search tool is the other half. It great that I can type MANT and the search brings up the Mantano Reader, for example. I.e., the search is agnostic, too. Nice.

So, search to find something known; carousel to find something recent; libraries to look for a particular kind of content. I like it.

One small complaint about the carousel is the speed. I wish I could slow it down a bit. Also, I wonder if people would feel differently about it if it had been named differently — Recent Stuff, or something clever like that?

11-20-2011, 10:01 AM	#53
Tanzaku Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 225 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Anacortes, WA Device: Kindle Fire, Kindle 3	In Support of the Carousel Seems like the carousel is pretty universally getting trounced, but I'm finding it a lot more useful than I thought I would. In fact, thumbs up. Now that I have 1000+ books, 100 albums of music, a couple hundred PDFs in my personal docs section, and 40 apps, I can see the logic of the carousel. It's not useful at all for finding something — but it is fantastic at helping me find a recent something. It reminds me of the "Recent documents" area on a Windows computer — a useless filing system, but a handy way to get back to something you were doing an hour ago. In particular, I'm loving that the carousel is agnostic — books, apps, music, documents, web pages. That's really handy. BTW, I also see the carousel being half of a two-part strategy. The search tool is the other half. It great that I can type MANT and the search brings up the Mantano Reader, for example. I.e., the search is agnostic, too. Nice. So, search to find something known; carousel to find something recent; libraries to look for a particular kind of content. I like it. One small complaint about the carousel is the speed. I wish I could slow it down a bit. Also, I wonder if people would feel differently about it if it had been named differently — Recent Stuff, or something clever like that?