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Originally Posted by davidfor
I've always been surprised at how little people here explore the UI. In the past, there have been a lot of complaints about having to swipe through the pages to get somewhere. I used to have to post about anything in italics was usually something that had an action behind it. Unfortunately, that isn't as true now. I generally think the interface is obvious, but, I'm also willing to tap things until something happens.
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People are so afraid they’ll somehow screw things up irreparably. I don’t know where they get this fear because it’s not been true for computers for some time now (I’d say on Mac anything since OS X launched as OS 9 and under gave a lot of access, for Windows maybe since Win 7 but I’ve never been much of a Windows guy so maybe earlier) nor has it been true of smartphones or tablets etc. and hasn’t been true for ereaders since at least the time they started entering the mainstream consumer market around the NST era when prices came down.
I’ve personally never had a real issue navigating on Kobo from the tiled home screen to the current which isn’t me trying to brag. It’s a generally well designed UI/UX with some minor oddities here and there. But getting to your book and buying more books is simple and that’s really the point of an ereader everything else is just icing.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
And what does "recently accessed" mean? Seriously, I don't know what it means. What I would think it means, doesn't agree with how collections were put on the old tiled screen. And doesn't agree with the meaning of Recent on the other tabs.
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Why not have it function just as series does? If you access a book from a collection that collection is the most recent. If you don’t access it from a collection the collection list isn’t changed. Likewise only the collection that you access the book from is affected if it’s in other collections those stay where they are.
It’d be like collections are just boxes you keep books in but via the magic of digital books can have one book in multiple places. However whatever box you were last using would be the most accessible / recent.
Though I’m not sure if it’s worth Kobos time to implement something like that. I rather suspect it’d need a fair bit added to how Nickle tracks books. And I have doubts about how many people are clamoring for something like this especially now that Series exists.