Found another positive change in 2.8.1, though minor and one probably most don't care about
In the webbrowser in previous fw, if you added more than 9 or 10 favourites, some (the ones on the bottom...which were completely randomly placed...i think) would just disappear. If you deleted some, they would reappear, but it was like they were being bumped off the screen with no way to reach them.
Now it states page 1 of 1, if I add more favourites, you get page 1 of 2, etc, which you can swipe to get through. Don't know what the limit on pages is (and I'm not about to add that many bookmarks to find out!), but a definite improvement!
(....and back to why kobo does or doesn't do things right...
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