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Originally Posted by nicolas161
This is the homescreen of my Kobo Glo HD as I like it:
As you can see, this is amazing.
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To each his own, I guess; that's cluttered with a ton of stuff not related to reading. I wouldn't want it on my homescreen.
If you use your reader more as a general-purpose tablet-type thing (which it sounds like you do, with the browser and chess and whatnot) then I can see finding the newer interface annoying.
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But what happens if you buy a Kobo now and quickly update the firmware? You will be greeted by this:
The 50% of your screen will be filled with non-removable ads telling you to buy things from Kobo.
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The top row turns into your last 4 books; the bottom “Recommended” quickly turns into “Favorites” (when you shut off recommendations), showing in-progress/favorite collections of my own books.
The two small parts at the bottom remain as-is, but it's a lot less that 50% of your screen.
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The top half of the screen will show your last four reads. Period. There's nothing you can do about it.
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You can use “My Books” as your main interface and sort by “Date Added” if you want to see more. But that doesn’t help if you want chess/browser/etc as well.
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So, after three years of updates, what has Kobo improved? Maybe the ereader turns pages some miliseconds faster. Maybe pictures are drawn better on the screen.
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Yep. And I spend about 200 times as much time reading books as I do on the home screen, so those are pretty big wins for me.
More importantly those older firmwares were sluggish with lots of books; that's been fixed so there's no real performance difference whether you have 50 or 5000 books.