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Old 07-14-2021, 06:10 AM   #83
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Join Date: Jul 2021
Device: Kobo Elipsa
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
what you say doesn't match with the Kobo home screens that I have seen.
Let me illustrate with a picture.
Attached is the illustration of how the fresh device with a couple of uploaded books looked for me.
The 2 dynamic fields in the 2nd row contained "Top 50" books and "Recommedned".
They were subsequently replaced with my books (which is a weird decision IMO, when it simply acts like a shortcut to "my books", for which there is already a shortcut) and a bookshelf.

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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
And you did mention the recommendation, which are "are quite bad in my experience". Of course they are. You state you don't buy books from Kobo.
That was not a jab at Kobo's recommendations, but recommendations in general. I actively used goodreads for some time and netflix/youtube/spotify and what not and almost never the recommendation were particularly good, so I try to remove them whenever possible.
In this particular case, even more so, since I have no intention to use Kobo's marketplace (at least as the main book buying platform).

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Using patches, you can remove the bottom two text links (Find Your Next Great Read and Discover Books...)
Thanks, that looks like something I'd want.

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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
Right. So it's neither persistent nor non-interactive, and not a dedicated advertisement space.
Partially.
* You can't remove it -> persistent
* I guess you could argue that any button is "interactive", but in the end it's just that: a very big glorified button. There is no interactivity with the element besides pressing it.
* It starts as dedicated space for promotional material. I do agree that it gets removed later in the life of the device, though.
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