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Kobo Aura HD H20 with sleep cover.
New screen:
1) Only 4 books,
2) no MRU of collections and other activies
3) No stats on annotations.
4) Wasted space generally
5) Wasted space on two Kobo links at bottom
It's massively worthless compared to previous screen
I managed to contact Customer care once (totally inept). Now the "submit" button doesn't work.
I had to delete the WiFi points AND restart my WiFi point to get WiFi to work.
The update came without warning when I was annotating / proof reading a 79K novel and looking up a phrase on Internet, even though sync is disabled. Went blank for scary amount of time.
The only good feature is that there is a check box to turn off swipe for brightness (which often accidentally changed when going back a page).
I've a lot of other gripes with the SW, which USED to be better than Amazon's rubbish. Are Kobo, and Amazon only employing interns / students? The ancient iRiver was better. I had better PC document management on DOS in 1980s!
I've a Kindle DXG and papertouch too.
I use Calibre to manage and backup my books as well as to make eBooks from Webpages and wordprocessor files.
IMO Kobo's attitude is abusive. I paid €220 for this. I should be informed and have a choice. It wasn't even a "security" upgrade, but seems to be a pointless jiggling of GUI, two small patches and making the Home Screen suit THEIR marketing instead of MY reading. Are they trying to copy MS, Google, Facebook and Amazon?
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