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Originally Posted by DNSB
OTOH, it was surprising to see how many people who read this forum are also addicted to improving their ebook experience by taking action and not just complaining that the reader does not display books the way they want to see them.
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Yeah... I hate reading a book with an ugly cover, or with bad margins or hard set to disgusting-times-new-roman.
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Originally Posted by Jaden
That's why I remove all of the options set by the publishers (colors, fonts, margins etc.) - I want the books to look the way I want.
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Aren't you afraid of deleting intentional font changes? Like in some books, one character's perspective is in font X and another character's perspective is in font Y, and letters the reader gets to see are in italics with large margins etc...
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Originally Posted by thp1017
I'd actually love to see them swap out the shortlist for the carousel on the first page, as a list (yes, a bit boring, but more functional!) and sort however you have your library currently sorted. And add a 'recently added' books to one of the drop-down menus?
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Hmmm I'd be sad to see the carousel go. It's a really nice layout. It's a good idea to have the contents of the carousel be user-definable...
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Originally Posted by Shai-Hulud
- If we must have commercial/social channels on the reader itself (and I am not convinced they belong there at all) then please at least recognise that throwing it in people's faces is more likely to alienate prospective buyers. I believe an acceptable compromise could be achieved by moving all the commercial aspects ("Discover", "Find Books" and "Wishlist") and social reading functionality under one tab like the "Discover" menu on the home screen where those that are interested can readily engage with it and those that aren't can get on with using the device as a functional ereader. Naturally this would include removing the annoying arrow tag that appears.
- I would like the carousel to display *my* chosen shortlist and replace the moved "Find Books" and "Wishlist" menus with "Last Shelf" and "Recently Added" to track the new content placed on the Kobo.
- Adding books to shelves direct from the library would be desirable as would being able to add several books to a shelf without having to press "Save" between each one.
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Yes, yes and yes. I agree with all three, please.
(Except if you mean the actual existing short list to be in the carousel. That could get tricky. I want the book I'm currently reading right there, and the next few that I'm planning to read, right there next to book 1. If the carousel would be just the short list, the book I'm currently reading wouldn't disappear when it's finished... Plus, the short list can contain more than 5 books, how could the KT decide which 5 of all the short listed books to display?)