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Originally Posted by Suzanna
I do find it amusing that so many people want to go back to having the shortlist on the home screen. The outrage when Kobo rolled that carousel out ... yeah, I'm not surprised they removed it.
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Am I being ignored in this thread or what?
People hated the carousel because it introduced advertising to a formerly ad-free device.
They switched to shortlist to avoid the ads.
They became used to the shortlist being on the homescreen.
Now it's gone.
"People be mad."
End of story.
Don't you see the advertising aspect of the homescreen? Three links to advertising opposed to one advertising carousel that could be set to shortlist thus hiding the advertising completely...
It's not that you can't avoid those links. Still it's annoying that they don't use the space for what's on my reader instead.
Why not at least separating "Reading" and "Discover" with two homescreens, like I said, that offer links to your content in Reading and links to things you may want to get in Discover?
Plus advertising takes up a lot of space in the internal memory, too. So it would be even better to be able to opt out of advertising on the Kobo. But at least it should be really separated from the reading experience and not take up space that could be used for other stuff.
And since there are two homescreen carousel tabs, why not completly switch the homescreen. I guess that would even help to interest people in trying Discover, people that are now to annoyed to even consider looking at them let alone buying books that are recommended that way...