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Old 05-11-2017, 01:25 PM   #149
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Originally Posted by graycyn View Post
If you never connect with wifi, you won't face an upgrade, hence no new homescreen to ever worry you. I left wifi off on my Kobo Aura HD for almost 3 years after the very first upgrade or two. All worked as I liked, no need to upgrade! I did upgrade it to new firmware this year, but I could've happily gone on without doing so.

I spend a lot of time reading, visits to the homescreen are generally brief enough.

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My Kobo usage is very similar to Sweetpea's. I never connect via WiFi and have a lot of side loaded books on my reader. As with Sweetpea, I would find the bottom half of the new home screen completely useless.

As you say, as long as I don't update my Kobo I won't have to deal with the new home screen at all. But it is a trade off. I would like some of the fixes/improvements that come with the new firmware--such as correct reading stats. I was hoping that Kobo would leave the code for the old home screen in the file, so that I could use GeoffR's patch to enable it. That way I could "have my cake and eat it too". But alas, that doesn't appear to be the case.
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