[Jaden]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Being able to decide, as I mentioned in an earlier post would make it useful perhaps. And maybe there is a feature on it other than the standard last opened book that I would find useful if it didn't find it mildly annoying and could bring myself to delve into it farther.

I especially like that I have the shortlist and some shelves I currently use frequently on the screen, as well as extras. The access is much easier, especially for the extras.

The fact that you keep having to dismiss things is one of the irritating things for me.

It would be easier if there was an option to permanently dismiss certain tiles - unless you reactivate them.

Me, for example, don't care much about my "last sync" or about "recommended" or "related to" - if I wanted to see any of this, I would access it via menu.

But I guess that's wishful thinking...

It is as clean as possible and then all of a sudden there is another little sticker added. And often the ones I might get crazy and use are rearranged.

I was worrying about that but got used to it pretty quickly. The last one used gets promoted to the top of the middle row (or gets a new tile there).

But I'm used to that from the library (recent reads) and different other programs - only that it looks a little different.

Of course I can understand that it can be annoying. It would be easier if there was a way to "fix" the tiles so they can't be bumped off the screen and keep them in a certain order/position.

I would far rather have better reading functionality and better and faster shelf navigating and sorting that is consistent.

I'm okay with the (K)ePub reading functionality.

CBZ/CBR is quite okay, too (only that is has the same ghosting bug as PDF has). Funny that they show "Annotations" in the menu though there is no way that I have found to add annotations to CBZ. But besides of that it works well. You can even rotate pictures 360° (which might be useful for some).

PDF could be better, though. For example I can turn a page in CBZ/CBR even if it's zoomed in by tapping, in PDF I have to scroll to the side and than tap an arrow which is annoying.

And it's annoying that when I turn the page in landscape mode I'm not in the top left corner of the PDF but in the lower left. It's correct in portrait mode, but most PDFs would be easier to read in landscape.

Also I wonder why the menu pops up when I tap anywhere in PDF reading mode. I am used to page forward by tapping, so I often get the menu up unwanted.

PDF reading should be more like CBZ reading IMHO (where I can swipe and tap to page forward and which generally works quite similar to (K)ePub reading).

Shelf navigation could be much better (and faster). I'd also love to see "multi-level" shelves (like fantasy > wheel of time) so I could sort all my books by genre and then series and/or author for example.

I don't annotate, but I have heard of problems in that area too.

I don't annotate either, at least not much. But yes... heard of problems, too.

And of course they should work everything that is related to reading long before they should even think about tweaking the homescreen. Though eventually they could make it better... maybe.

Still nice that you are happy

Thanks.

I'm sorry that you're not as happy with the Aura homescreen (though it's not my fault, I know ).