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Originally Posted by latepaul
I like it. I got briefly excited by "reading lists" but it appears that there's no way to set up a custom reading list other than to artificially restrict your Goodreads "to-read" shelf or your Amazon Wishlist.
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Yeah, for me it pulls from all my amazon wish lists. I have several.
It does show the recently added first in sorting order. Its overall fine for me like that as I have wishlists for KU, wishlists for upcoming, wishlists for recommendations, etc. And I like that I can see on that list what book is in KU.
I wish though I could specify the goodreads shelf it pulls from for the reading list. Because I do not use the original preset want to read shelf, I created my own exclusive shelved. So it doesn't pull from that as goodreads on kindle only deals with the 3 original exclusive shelves.
If you do goodreads, the bottom recs are rotating so at times it will come from your goodreads friends, which is nice for me as I follow mostly folks that read what I read.
The new recommendation section is inside goodreads. There it lets you set your favorite genres, but they aren't drilled down enough for my tastes. But works overall. They really do seem to look at the stuff I read and liked on goodreads for the recs.
I use on cover view now, but I actually like how it puts down what is a collection, what is a book, what is a sample and what is a document.
I think for me this is more of a thing to just get used to, like anytime something changes.
I been in grid view more than list view now.
One thing I really really like that changed is the ALL/Downloaded view. Which was Cloud/device before. On the old version, it always reverted back to device when I hit the home button. And now it stays with the selection you picked. I mean I like to stay in cloud(All) view most often and it now sticks. If you like the Downloaded view, it sticks to that. Until you change it. Its not a default anymore. I really love that. It remembers.
And its possible I am dreaming, but my bookerly now looks as dark as the caecilia does. It was a bit lighter previously. I won't swear on that though, but going back and forth its about the same now. It just seems more solid. Not that I had many issues, but when it got dark, I preferred going back to caecilia as the contrast was a bit better for my eyes then. Now I don't have to do that. I can stay with bookerly. Did they make that font fuller? or whatever the word is for it.
I do miss one thing. The dots. But I have missed the progress bar also since the last basic. I still have that one, buttons and progress bar, it is nice in bright light to read on it for a while. But overall I just like how the Voyage works better. But I do miss the progress bar and those buttons and now I miss the dots that show how long a book might be. It was a visual cue to see how thick the spine of the book is so to speak.
That is the only thing though so far I don't like about the new update.