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Originally Posted by davidfor
I'm pretty sure that if you never connect to Kobo, the only thing about the store you will see is the link in the bottom left. That takes about the same amount of space as the store link in the old home screen.
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That seems to be so with KA1 onto which I sideloaded the update. However, that was not so with my original Aura onto which I had also sideloaded the update.
On the Aura, I was seeing the covers for unsolicited books where on my KA1 it just shows a random author. Not sure where the covers came from since I never had anything remotely like them on my Aura and since I hadn't attached my Aura to the internet to do the update. That area seemed to be rotating through different headings such as "Recommendations", "Top Picks" and "Good Reads for Under $5". (Wish I had copied down the exact headings.)
What I think happened was that, because all my books were on my external micro SD card, there were only a couple of them and they were only epubs, I suspect that the device was just trying to plug something into that spot because it couldn't find an author to fill it with.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
I'm not trying to say that the new home screen is better than the old tiled home screen because I don't think it is. But, things are not as bad as the recent posts here make out.
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Agreed. Not ideal, but I can live with it (on my KA1) for the increased responsiveness, despite all my previous whining about the new screen.