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Originally Posted by MDK
• Revamped home screen makes finding books easier
• Pin books to a Wishlist so you can buy them later
• Create custom book shelves
• Get personalized book recommendations
• Find books similar to the ones in your library
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For me these changes are simply not improvements.
I found a use for the carousel and have the Shortlist on my Homepage. I just have my library books on it to remind me which books need reading to a "deadline".
I also like the clock where it is.
I'd have thought that personalised recommendations would already have been
similar to the ones in your library, otherwise why are they recommended for me?
As for a wishlist, do me a favour, there is already far too much marketing by Kobo, without me encouraging them.
Don't think I've ever changed a font and I'm perfectly happy with the current legibility.
The shelves might be useful, but I rarely have more than a dozen books on the device at any one time, so the other changes for the worse outweigh that possible change for the better.
All in all, I'll stick with my current firmware.
Now an update that let me
opt out of recommendations, that would be useful.
I know that Kobo's business is to sell books, and that's fair enough.
However, these days I just won't connect my KT to Kobo's website, because I don't want it cluttering up with these worthless adverts. Or in case it updates something I don't want it to (actually, I never "sync" any device anyway, it invariably does more harm than good!).
So Kobo's marketing practice actually deters me from buying from them!