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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I have never personally been influenced by amazon's cover one way or the other. I see them as a automatically updating decoration. The company uses that space to market exactly the wrong type of books, I have never seen anything on that space that I am remotely interested in. IF they are trying to market books that way they are going about it all wrong.
I do not have any experience with the Kobo function that Rev Bob is talking about, however assuming that it is similar to the way that amazon uses the same space on my paper white then I would say that amazon is going about the task all wrong.
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I took Rev. Bob's post to mean that his Kobo shows the cover of the currently open book as the "screensaver" (like the Paperwhite has the writing implements etc). In other words, once you're done with one book, you feel compelled to instantly choose another one (from the ones already on the device), so that the screensaver image will stop reflecting the already-finished book.
This doesn't have anything to do with the Amazon recommended books that are on the Paperwhite (this can be turned off in the menu, btw, at least on the not-sponsored version).
Of course I might have got it completely wrong, in which case I apologise for any confusion.
