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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
My opinion, as a user, for what it's worth:
Not a fan, I honestly think all the "push to buy" links are counterintuitive, they make me *never* want to buy from Kobo. Really, and I'm not a fanatic about my ereader, it's off putting to have some much commercialization built into the software.
I've bought your reader, I know where you are if I want to buy books, back off. It's intrusive - I find it intrusive to have a "Discover" link next to my "Library" link, and 2 of the 3 links at the bottom aimed at cajoling me to spend money. I know Kobo is in the business of selling books, but I'd prefer to seek out the opportunity, rather than have it shoved in my face every time I turned on my reader. It's just useless clutter to me.
For my preference, it would be better to have a "Library","ShortList" (or "Shelves") and "Reading Life" set of links at the top, and a "Store" link underneath the covers. Under that "Store" link put "Wishlist" and "Discover".
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My sentiments too, VirgoGirl.
On other aspects of the matter, I'm glad to see Kobo hasn't abandoned development for the Touch, whatever else it may have on the boil. A pity, though, that this firmware has come such a visible cropper for some people. I'm very glad that I was one of the lucky ones who had no real issues with the upgrade beyond having to log out and back in and losing my bookmarks and stats. Not a big deal compared to others' experiences, and I use my KT all the time, so I really sympathise at what a pain it must be to suddenly have it bricked. Hope they get it sorted soon, folks.
There are a couple of things I don't much like about the changes, but apart from those represented by VirgoGirl's comments above, they're small.
One little annoyance for me, though, is hyphenation when the text is fully justified. I had no problem prior to this with the spacing sometimes necessary for right justification, and find the sometimes-erratic hyphenation (I've just come across an instance where
machine was hyphenated as mac-hine!!) far more disruptive to reading flow. Has anyone discovered a way to turn the hyphenation off?