Quote:
Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
The old homepage could have as many half-a-dozen tiles reflecting recent activity, including reading stats and if you accessed anything like the games. The new home screen shows only your four most recent reads at the top with the lower half showing a fanned out preview of other books in your on-board library and a link to the Kobo bookshop at the very bottom..
|
On that home page which is what my H2O had when I bought it, you could have ONLY a "most recent" list of thumbnails. Though you maybe needed Calibre to turn off absolutely everything else, I forget.
ALMOST TWO THIRDS of the home screen is wasted. The Thumbnail with other books suggested in "My Books" is a total waste of space. Half the width of screen. Similarly useless is the <last selected collection> taking up same space.
Too much "white space".
The two text bits at the bottom are arrogant on Kobo's part.
I bought this, at twice the price of my phone or tablet and nearly half the price of a reasonable laptop to READ BOOKS FROM ANYWHERE.
I've never bought a book from Kobo.
My annotations are important because I use the eReader for research and and proof reading. I'd like some idea of how many, like there used to be, before I import them to laptop. I never read the annotations on the Kobo. I never use Annotations on any of my ereaders for Navigation. I make bookmarks for Navigation.
Why also no option to see all bookmarks in date order across all books?
It seems to me the only use case Kobo considers is people buying books from Kobo, then deleting as soon as read once and rely on the Cloud. I DO NOT want them to vanish from home screen when read. I might want to go back and re-read something. I want to ONLY manually dismiss from a Homescreen ordered by read.
Kobo have made MY H2O much less useful and damaged the functionality as an eReader and portable library compared with when I bought it.
Only ONE noticeable bug fix and one feature change worth while since the Firmware on it new:
1) You can turn off the annoying (for me) slide to vary light. I hardly ever use it, if I do it's at about 10%.
2) It used to drop annotations if the end point or start was at a paragraph break.
It is more useful for annotations than the Kindle, purely because it's per book and you get the whole highlight + position in chapter. The Kindle Annotation export seems to be for the entire Kindle, unless there is something I'm doing wrong.
Kobo's UI concept and idea of updates, seems now like MS, garbage.
I've designed GUIs and Highlight/Shadow GUI on mono LCD with microcontrollers with NO grey shades (1 bit per pixel). The Kobo internally seems to be RGB and the eInk panel mimics 4 bit per pixel (14 shades grey, black, white). There is a ghost issue with eInk (you can see it on the useless sketch app, the Sony PRS350 app is better!), but it doesn't prevent having what a win 3.1 EGA display on a mono screen would be like in terms of a 3D hinted GUI. (Yes I programmed on that too). The screen has to refresh ANYWAY to avoid a ghost of keyboard, Font settings etc. Let's not have excuses for Kobo's deliberately poor GUI design. I know what an eInk screen can do.