I didn't like the new home screen because I was using the old one to bypass some performance bugs.
The new home screen has changed my reading workflow in what I think is mostly a good way.
If I were to change the new home screen at all, I'd want these changes:
* The bottom left tile ("my books") does the same as "my collections" just after you've looked at a shelf. It takes one tap more to actually get to my books from that screen. (I.e., it doesn't do what I expect, and what it does do is functionally redundant.)
* The bottom right tile picks stuff semi-randomly. I'd like to either understand why it picks things or have more control over what it picks.
* As I detailed in my last message, the bottom left and right text lines could be more interesting than they are now. (Maybe they do more if you use more social media accounts than I do?)
For extra bonus functionality:
* The bottom left and right tiles pick 3 books and collages their covers; it'd be nice if I could actually select one of those three directly.
* Sometimes the 3 picked are the most recent 3 from that group, sometimes it seems more random. I like random, it stirs things up. If I could pick books from the collage, I'd also like to tell it to make the selection *more* random. (an option maybe?)
I think these suggestions are all minor improvements, for the most part I like the new home screen. However, without the performance fixes they've put in in the last two (widely distributed) firmwares, the new home screen would be unusable to me.