[davidfor]

Originally Posted by seabee

Didn't read the whole thread yet but these are the features i'd REALLY like to have, most important (to me) first:
1) next to the home button when reading a book, a return/back button to leave the book, returning EXACTLY to where I opened it from (Home, a collection or the whole library, on the page where the book appear). Sometime, I browse books searching for something and this is a real pain (the number of SOOOO SLOW operations to continue the search on the next book is appalling).

<edit>Just read in previous posts that this button existed and was removed by Kobo, now I'm really : </edit>

It is coming back in the next firmware version. Or at least it is for the lit devices.

2) both for home and library screen, a mode to have only one line of text for each book (super compact third mode).

Not something I would use, I like the covers, but I can see the use of it.

To me, reduced books covers are almost unrecognizable anyway (hence the home is often unusable). And multi-page-home (remember at least the 20 most recently read books).

If you sort the library list by "Recently Read" you get fairly close to this.

4) an optional hierarchical mode when sorting the library by author (browse authors only then choose among books of this author, no need to build collections by author).

Yes, an author list and a series list that look similar to the shelf list.