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Originally Posted by Solarin
I think the issue that all technology companies face is that everyone wants everything to be an option. We see it with smartphones where 100 different people can have 100 different ideas for what features they want to be opt-in or opt-out.
The difference with kindles though, is that most users spend 99% of their time reading on the kindle. Dots vs. percentages in the list view is something that most users honestly would not care about. Amazon is probably just trying to make it the most user friendly as possible, while also keeping the options menu less complicated as possible.
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It is true that I like to customize everything to my liking. I can do it with computers, with phones, with tablets, and with most things in real life; so it's frustrating for me to just have to accept with the Kindle that they changed something that existed and that I really liked to something that just doesn't work as well for me.
As for their option menu - even with the few real options it has, it has been complicated for ever. I'm good with technology but half the time it's a struggle to find the setting I'm looking for in the Kindle. So I'm not sure the number of options is the only problem there. I wouldn't have minded if they had changed that, for example. But maybe it's just me.
You're right that once we're in a book, the menu doesn't matter anymore, and the point of a kindle is reading. So maybe I'm part of a minority of people who take into account a book's length before deciding which book they'll read next, who like a visual indication of progress better than a percentage number.
Especially when I haven't even started a book and the menu shows either "0% READ" or "1 % READ" under it. It's the case for at least half my books. I don't understand how that is any useful, it's more confusing than not.
And I am most certainly in a minority who have honest trouble reading book titles in this new menu system, because there is just too much text too close together and considering my sight problems that's really an annoying change for me.
Bottom line is, I'll get used to it, we'll all get used to it, whether we like it or not, and that's all we can do or say, because choice is nonexistent. I still love the Kindle, it's a great device and all, but I don't love it as much as before.
So, sorry if I complain too much, but I can't help thinking that when you pay for a Kindle Voyage, considering the price it's your right to be choosy and difficult with what it does, is it not?