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Old 08-25-2021, 07:12 AM   #84
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It's obvious that this update was designed by someone in their 20's and not by a 65 year old with the beginnings of cataracts. Other than the book I'm presently reading I have no idea which book covers those rectangular shapes on the Home page are supposed to represent. That and the unadjustable small fonts are the worst. If I stay off the Home page I'm not affected too badly by the update.
One thing I absolutely hate is that it now lists only 4 books on a page. It used to be 8 and then a recent update made it 7 and now it is 4. Where this matters is that I usually have a hard time deciding what next book to read. So, a while back I wrote a very simple Basic program to run on my phone to choose my next book. It randomly picks the sorting order (Recent, Author, or Title). It picks the Page the book is on and which book on the Page. Then I'd advance page after page swiping my finger until I got to the winning book. The swiping was bad enough when pages in the 70s or 80s were picked, now we're talking in the hundreds. At 4 books per page I'm not going to use the program anymore. Even picking books manually is going to be a pain.
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