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Originally Posted by davidfor
On what device? And where? Are talking about what is shown on the home page of a brand new Kobo device for a brand new user? If so, just use the device. Yes, Kobo put things on the home page, but, they respond to use. Once you have a few books on the device, the other things disappear.
Or are you referring to some other not mentioned device?
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On a Kobo Elipsa in the lower-left corner for the brand new user.
They did disappear eventually, but initial impression was pretty bad.
I'll look into the Kobo Patcher to see if any of this can be changed.
Following is a rant about me not liking the interface.
Generally, I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the interface.
Bottom-left was occupied by the aforementioned TOP-50 picks with the largest image being quite unpleasant to me. I tried pressing "not interested", but it didn't change anything, it was still one of the largest elements on the screen.
Bottom-right was just wasted space, since I'm not really interested in recommendations (they are quite bad in my experience). I did give it a try, but now they just contain some books I'm not going to be interested in.
The worst part is how non-interactive they are.
This is literally a dedicated advertisement space.
You can't browse through the elements from the screen, you can't dismiss or open them from here.
The only thing you can do is use them to open the store (for which there already is a dedicated, always visible button at the bottom of the screen).
To be fair, once I uploaded some books instead of just research PDFs, it did disappear, but the space is still wasted. As the top row I have my recent books.
In the bottom left I have some other books. By pressing on any of the books in the lower-left they don't open, but bring you to the other page entirely with all of your books. So I can just press "my books" button with the same effect.
I just think the UI is terrible, honestly.
I'd prefer it to always default to the "my books" page with the "currently reading" ones at the top and have the ability to disable everything else.