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Originally Posted by Tasmin
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...
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I'm taking an educated guess at this of course.
But logically the "shortlist" attribute must be a boolean on/off flag in the database, hence mapping the shortlist to display as the carousel shouldn't be an issue. Using the same assumption it's also logically feasible to automatically set the shortlist flag to "off" on completing a book (or on manually marking it as finished) which would have the effect of leaving it untouched in the shortlist carousel until it's actually finished.
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Originally Posted by Tasmin
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?)
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I can see no reason why the number of books shown on the carousel couldn't be increased slightly though personally I wouldn't find 5 books a limitation as I like to purposefully keep the list short (i.e. shortlist in it's most literal sense). The current selection criteria for the carousel is obviously date related (i.e. display most recently added). Without changing the existing database structure, the carousel could be set to pin those books flagged as being on your shortlist in reverse date order i.e. oldest added first. Crude, but workable. Beyond this database changes would have to made with possible performance impacts. This is down to the Kobo Devs.
I'm certainly not defending the carousel model per se. As thp1017 said earlier:
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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!)
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Although it has a certain visual appeal, I'd sacrifice that in a blink for functionality every time. My proposition attempts to marry the "eye-candy" of the carousel to the desired functionality of the shortlist.