Thread: New Home Screen vs Old Home Screen
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Old 03-04-2017, 08:50 PM   #24
davidfor
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
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.
But, none of the Kobo firmware version have not had "ads". Every single version has displayed prominently links to the store, or recommendations or some other list of books or access to parts of the store. I've never had any problems with this as it wasn't intrusive to intrusive. The recent tiled home screen has probably been the least intrusive and also the most customisable.

The loss of function is my main problem. Tiles like collections, finished books and new books, and the annotations link on books. And the library tile just doesn't seem to be as useful as the previous one. I'm not sure why.
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I'm not happy about losing OverDrive access; that was a convenience I valued.
Sorry, OD isn't working, or is it the loss of an OD tile?
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