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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
So with the newer firmware you can no longer hack it to get the tiled homescreen? That's what I did with my current firmware.
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Correct. The old tiled home screen is well and truly gone. Patches cannot bring it back.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Can you dump the ads? (Recommended/Find your next great read)
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There are one or two "slots" (of six) on the home screen where 3 Recommended books
might be shown. For one slot it was easy enough to replace this with 3 books from one of my own Collections just by opening a book from that Collection. The other slot will display 2 of your recently opened (but not finished) books. So, again, easy to manipulate. Some people see 3 books by one of their authors, instead. I haven't seen any Recommended books since Day 1 of the firmware when the new home screen appeared. None of my Kobos displays a home screen thumbnail for any book which I haven't sideloaded myself.
There is another perma-slot (bottom left) which displays 'Find your next great read' (text only, no thumbnails). If even that is too much to bear, oren64 created a recent Patch to remove both slots on the bottom row.
ETA: I suppose I ought to add that I never enable wi-fi on any of my Kobos so I don't know whether my experience is typical for all users.