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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I've had a hard time finding in depth reviews of sideload mode and am wondering how you get back to your current reads without a home screen? Like if you decided to go explore your library or collections?
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The Mybooks can show any of
Only books being read.
Only books finished.
Only books unread.
On Books Tab
There is sort by recent, date added, title, author, collection and series.
There are also Authors, Series, Collections Tabs.
Search works well as it finds the word(s) in Titles, Authors, and Series. You can put a space to find a whole word.
The regular home screen Current Reading has only four books. "My Books" can have ALL the books you've opened, in Recent Sort, so top four is regular home screen.
With SideLoadedMode=True the nearly useless "Home" and "Discover" are gone.
The bottom has
My Books ---- Activity ---- More
(The ---- are not there)
Once you figure "My Books" setting you'd never ever miss the home page
It has
Top Row: Last four most recently opened (My Books has that as top four)
Two tiles: "My Books" and either last author or last collection
Bottom row: Kobo Shop and rotating tips.
So the ONLY things on regular "Home" not in "My Books" are the Shop (computer + web browser better) and random tips.
Also you can't Sync with other Kobos on your account or direct WiFi download bought books from Kobo with SideLoadedMode=True
Obviously the nearly pointless Web Browser and SketchPad still work under More -> Beta.
Everyone in my family uses their Kobos in "SideLoadedMode=True" mode.
They don't use the WiFi.
I have only one Kobo (a Libra 2) in regular mode for testing.