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Originally Posted by shalym
What "sharing/privacy/SM options" are you talking about?
Shari
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Options that used to be in Settings and
use the Internet:
Aa -> More
Book Mentions
Popular Highlights
(About this Book) Don't know were that was before?
Also the popup is more than half a 300 dpi screen. The slide switch style check boxes are the WORST GUI design ever invented, apart from scroll bars that are only visible on hover.
Also using scroll bars as a GUI element on Kindles and Kobo is stupid. A pair of up/down arrows.
The Contents page has been dreadful to navigate for several FW versions
Now Reading options under settings has only
Page Refresh
Public Notes
Vocabulary Builder.
It mangages also to have slide switches instead of check boxes, but a different style to those on Aa page.
It's like an early prototype. I've managed SW / HW groups. I'd fail this.
Privacy is buried in Advanced Options. You can't see what state it is without connecting. The Advertising on Home Screen is also "hidden" there.
Yet on the Sort menu of the Home page (without advert), they manage to use ticks for selected. But I think those are actually "Radio button" selection GUI elements, using a sort of check box style.
Win10, Android, Kobo, Kindle seem to have thrown away everything learnt about GUI design since 1975 and dreamed up ambiguous flat outline graphics with a tenuous connection to the actual usage.
The interface is a mess. If something is a global setting, especially rarely changed it should be in the top level all settings.
There should be TWO Aa menus:
1) A global default.
2) a per book
It should ONLY have Font Face, size, line spacing and margins. Perhaps have themes shared to both.
Also why the stupid large minimum margin compared to every thing else?
Do they test any of this with properly chosen subjects before release?
They are going one step forward and two backwards on each release.
Also the update and mysterious enable later is just lazy testing or abusing the users. As is never being able to step back.
Amazon are not renting these. They sell them.