Thread: New Home Screen vs Old Home Screen
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Old 03-10-2017, 12:37 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by KevinBurke View Post
I updated my kobo aura HD, not H20, I don't a waterproof ereader, to the newest firmware and I still have the old homescreen.

I think I prefer the old homescreen but the new homescreen is not the end of the world and is more intuitive in some ways e.g. going to settings by clicking one button rather than hopping through two screens to do the same function.
It the same number of taps to get to the settings. Both need you to tap a menu icon at the top of the screen, then tap the settings item in what is displayed.

But, overall, the new top bar and menu is a great improvement.
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There are pros and cons to each but people, in general, seem adverse to change in general.

In my opinion it is worth upgrading for the bug fixes and stability improvements despite the new homescreen. Not doing so is like chopping your nose off to spite your face.

I mean it still shows the last three or four books you had open, prominently, is more intuitive, and you should be spending more time immersed in an actual book, where other screen formats and options , come into play than in the homescreen.
You actually picked one of my biggest problems. On the new home screen, the four books are the most recently opened but not finished. On the old home screen it would also show recently finished books. If I finish a book, it is still prominently displayed to remind me to do my "shelving" processes - mark it as read elsewhere, fix any errors I found in the book (another lost function: annotations can't be seen), tell others they absolutely must or must not read it, etc. Yes, I can do this from the book list, but I can look for the still opened books there as well. And it doesn't display the books I just added to the device.

With the new home screen, a large chunk is taken up by the recommendations. Now, I do look at Kobo's recommendations and the related books, and I have bought books because of them, (rarely the actual recommendation, but probably book 1 in the series or something by the same author). The old home screen gave the recommendations tile roughly the same weight as my book tiles. And when I was finished with it, I could remove it so I could handle the next thing. On the new home screen, it's just wasted space nearly all the time.

I do spend most of the time reading on the device. But I spend enough time with the home screen that these changes are going to get in my way.
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