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Originally Posted by RadicalxEdward
Oh, I also don't think there should be ANY flat out ads once you've PAID to remove advertising. I love that they offer a discount on the upfront cost of the kindle and that you can pay to remove the ads down the line, but once you do, you shouldn't be stuck with blatant advertising (or having to disable multiple other features of the homepage just to avoid that one bit of ad space)
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I don't have any ads on my Voyage with the new home view. I have recommendations based on what I rated on goodreads, I have stuff from my amazon wishlists and from goodreads to read list. Once in a while the bottom banner recommends a couple of books based on the one I am reading right now, and they are spot on. Tells me its pretty much based on my own book likes.
Not sure why anyone would expect Amazon to shape a software that caters to those that don't shop for books on amazon, but buy elsewhere and sideload. And jailbreak.
The home view only works if you are actively involved in book cataloging and rating and such things. You can have a goodreads account and just rate books you read and add those you want or own the to-read shelf. You can create amazon wishlists and you get that same view and don't even have to buy the books there I suppose. You don't have to have any friends on goodreads if you don't want. You can use it as a catalog feature to get recommendations.
But if none of that is of interest, the home view would be pretty useless so turn it off.
They created the home view specifically to integrate several of their in house features to get folks to buy and read more books. So of course it will have Amazon products there. I love that they integrated goodreads so well. I don't have to browse on amazon anymore to find stuff which with all the spammers is useless. I been looking at the stuff from my Voyage now.
. And it integrates nicely with KU too.