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I just updated my Kobos to the latest firmware by setting my affiliate to bestbuyca. Started with the Aura HD. Figured I could compare home screens, see which I liked best.
I rather like the new home screen! It feels less cluttered and cleaner to me, so I have gone ahead with the update on the KA1.
So far what I'm seeing on the KA1 is four of my books at the top, a tile for My Books and then a tile for Wishlist.
At the bottom are two sections of text: Browse for books to buy, borrow or preview and Discover books related to the ones you are reading. I assume the latter is recommended books, but it's just text, not book covers and it appears I'd have to click on it to actually SEE recommendations. I can live with that.
The recommendations text seems to randomly switch out with other text, at the moment it's a link to the user guide for the KA1. After opening the user guide, it's switched to suggesting I browse fiction, romance, biography and more categories.
I don't see any way to dismiss the text at the bottom, but it's really not bugging me.
On my Aura HD, instead of the Wishlist tile, I got a random author tile. It'd be nice if they allowed us to pick which we'd prefer to see. More customization would be nice...
For instance, rather than an AUTHOR tile, would be cool to have a SERIES tile! I like the Wishlist tile, will serve a good reminder for books I want to put library holds on or buy.
Anyway, my KA1 feels faster and more responsive to touch after the update, so I plan to live with the new homescreen. Besides, on the KA1, I wouldn't want to avoid turning on wifi, the library book feature is too nice.
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