[Jaden]

Originally Posted by Suzanna

I'm not ignoring you at all, Jaden. I originally had a lot more written, but deleted much of it for the sake of brevity.

Who was it who said (s)he didn't have time to write something short? I sometimes feel that's me (plus English being my second language it's sometimes hard to be brief).

I wasn't all that serios, of course.

Yes, switching to the shortlist solved the complaint about advertising on the homescreen on 1.9.17, and I, too, liked having it there. Many people, however, still complained about it. We remember all the threads about advertising on the homescreen and the advice to switch the list to your shortlist. Many didn't like that advice and complained about it anyway because they felt it was too much work on their part to have to take that extra step to avoid Kobo's "advertising".

Oh, I remember those as well, and I remember that I often gave the advice to switch to shortlist. I also remember some people had the problem that the selection didn't stick.

Also it still didn't stop Kobo from loading more advertising to your Touch, even though you didn't see it - it took up space.

And it's frustrating to buy an ad-free device and have ads a few months later.

A lot of Kobo's customers sync their devices wirelessly or through the Kobo desktop software. I don't have numbers, of course, but I'd hazard a guess that most of their customers use kepubs and don't sideload their content.

I actually like the KePub format, so if I buy from Kobo, I use the Desktop to sync.

Otherwise I sideload.

I have one sister who's an avid reader and that's what she does. (Well, I have two sisters who are avid readers, but one uses Kobo and the other Sony.) She likes the convenience of syncing directly with Kobo and can't be bothered with downloading the adobe epubs and messing around with Calibre. For all those customers, the device automatically reset the carousel to "recommended reads" *every single time* they synced it and they'd have to reset it to show their shortlist. That's advertising. A link? Seriously? No advertising is loaded onto the device because of a link. It's only loaded onto the device if one chooses to click that link.

Well, yes, it's advertising. And the small covers you see? They are downloaded to your device.

And now there's even more that's downloaded to my device. I know that because I don't have WiFi at home, but have a lot of books with covers and descriptions on my Touch now (after sync and update). Not previews, those I'd have to download, but 20+ covers and descriptions in Discover alone take a lot of space... And there's the Recommended and Similar...

It's not that I personally care that much - but I think that separating the homescreens would be a good solution.

But first, of course, they should fix the slow epub page turns and the fonts.