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Originally Posted by davidfor

For the record, sideloaded mode was added in firmware version 4.31.19086. I described most of the features at that time in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...19#post4191419. And there has been a lot of discussion about it since.

Yes, except 4.31 was a bit buggy, I reverted from it to 4.28 on one Kobo. I know it was discussed extensively at the time. I'm just sharing my own experience as at the time I thought the loss of a home screen that you could dismiss all the tiles from except currently reading was terrible.

I certainly appreciate all your work on Annotations, Kobo Utilities and your comments on new firmware releases. I had one Kobo still on ancient FW and updated it this morning as I was so pleased with the UI change caused by SideloadedMode=true which I only added to the Kobos here with current FW a few days ago.

There was enthusiasm from some people that disliked or avoided registering. I never had any issue with registering the Kobos at initial unpacking, so I'm purely interested in the default "main screen", not the registration aspect.