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Why would you remove those? It's not like it'd give you another row of recent books instead.
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Are you saying because the person the Kobo is intended for is unable to learn how to use it without dumbing it down?
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Thanks for following up.
The person who will be using this is not a typical user. They have a flip/feature phone and only rudimentary email experience. It's my hope that they can learn to use an e-reader (because they like to borrow books from the library but have a hard time with small text), but the kobo throws a lot at you if you don't know how to interact with it.
My hypothesis is that the less this person sees, the better. To that end, I am disabling anything they won't need. This includes dynamic stuff such as recommended content, store access, Pocket, redundant links, etc. It doesn't matter if it results in whitespace. It simply has to minimize their choices for interaction. In the end, this will hopefully look something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/VVRd4Xa.jpg
(The attachment uploader on this forum isn't working for me all of a sudden)
Even with all of this, I'm not sure it will be enough for them (for instance, the touch screen, itself, might just be too much). But I want to try! I also only have one shot at this, as they live across the country and I will mail them the dumbed-down device.