[Willa]

I like the old home screen just as it is - I have control over how it looks, I use the Kobo Utilities plug in to remove unwanted 'features'. I also like having the collections tile. It is fully customisable to my wants and needs making that part of the reading experience exactly how I want it. As it should be.

Currently Kindle offers you the choice of whether you would like advertising when you purchase the device - and the Kindle with advertising is cheaper than the one without. I certainly wouldn't have paid £190 for a luxury ereader to be bombarded with advertising if I had been given the choice at the point of purchase. Are Kobo going to be offering partial refunds for accepting advertising - to be in line with Amazon?

The only choice I have now is not to sync - therefore not running the risk of 'updating' to the new home screen. I understand that there is a patch available but if I purchase a book from Kobo (rare but it happens) it will download the update when I sync to get the book.

I appreciate that Kobo does regular updates to improve their ereaders or to fix problems - but this is NOT an improvement from a customer point of view imho .