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Old 03-04-2017, 10:57 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Willa View Post
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?
I wondered about the partial refunds, too!

If, going forward, Kobo is only going to sell devices with ads, so be it. Caveat emptor. But this was a retroactive bait-and-switch. They can't even claim this is an added "feature" since other features have been taken away. I would still prefer the old screen, but if you could dismiss the marketing tiles with a long press as you can with old screen tiles, and replace them with collection tiles, I'd shrug it off. Not as good a use of space, but I'd get along.

I'm not happy about losing OverDrive access; that was a convenience I valued.
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