I would like to know if anyone else feels as I do about the Kindle update coming this month. It is an automatic update and can’t be refused. It will create a homepage that will only have a small box in the upper left hand corner for recently read books. To get to our current homepage – our libraries – we will have to click on an arrow on the new homepage. The page will be much like the current store page – full of recommended books, with an advertising banner at the bottom of the page. There are pictures and explanations of this new homepage here:
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=13550053011
I paid the extra $30 in order to not have any ads on my Kindle Voyage, and deeply resent having another form of advertising forced on me. I believe that Amazon should refund my $30, since now I will be subjected to ads every day. I am also not interested in the Amazon selected recommended books – in my opinion, those are just another way for Amazon to advertise. They want to force us to have a homepage that is quite similar to their store page, obviously hoping that we will buy more books than we do now. On a device for which I have paid over $330, I do not appreciate having Amazon’s corporate commercial greed forcing an advertising based homepage on me, constantly, every time I want to navigate between books on my Kindle.
I have long lists of books I’d like to read without needing any help from Amazon to discover any. But, if I did want suggestions, I can navigate to that page in the current Kindle setup; I am deeply disturbed by being forced to have a page full of book lists and suggested books forced on me as my homepage. I want to continue to have my library list be my homepage and be able to go immediately back to the library from within any book I am reading by touching the homepage icon. I most emphatically do not want to have to go from any book I am reading to this new homepage, that I detest, and for which I have no use at all, and then from that homepage to my library. Every time I want to go from a book to the library, I will have to go through this annoying extra step.
Does anyone else feel at all as I do about this new homepage?
If so, please contact Amazon, and let them know. I believe that Amazon should include in this update (or a future update) the ability for Kindle users to choose which will be their homepage – this new one, or their library, as it is now. Then those who may like the new homepage could have it, and those of us who hate the new homepage can have the option of keeping our library as our homepage. If Amazon cares about their Kindle customers, they will create this option for us. If they only care about foisting advertising on us in hopes of increasing their Kindle book sales, then they will refuse to give us this choice.
In which case, I am even considering that it could be possible for Kindle readers who paid for the no-ads option and who feel about this update as I do, to join in common cause, perhaps even a class action suit, to get our $30 payments for having no advertising refunded to us. Or, will Amazon offer to remove the ads from this obnoxious new homepage if we pay them another $30?
Thank you for reading my post and letting me express my feelings. I hope I haven't sounded too strident. It's just that I have so adored my Kindle in its current configuration, and will truly hate this new homepage. Since I love reading books on my Kindle so much, this unwelcome change is very distressing to me.
