Kindle Home Screen - recommended content & advertising

Jane12 · 04-24-2015, 05:53 PM

I'm thinking of getting my father a Kindle and had a question about the home screen.

In screenshots of the Kindle homescreen, I see a row of books from your library at the top and a row of recommended books from the Kindle Store at the bottom.

I also see from the User Guide: "Recommended Content: When in cover view, this option allows you to display or hide recommended content from the Kindle Store on your Home screen."

What happens on the homescreen when you hide recommended content? Does the whole screen fill up with books from your library?

Also, where and when do special offers appear? I'm concerned it's distracting or intrusive.

Thanks!

eschwartz · 04-24-2015, 06:18 PM

Recommended content can be disabled in the settings menu, and then fortunately goes back to showing your own books there instead.

Special offers appears on the sleep screen and as a small footer in the library view. Most people do not find it intrusive, especially since it most certainly does NOT appear while you are reading.

The only reason why I don't like the special offers? Is because if I hadn't gotten rid of them, I couldn't use the screensavers hack (requires jailbreak) to make the screensaver show the cover of the book I am i the middle of reading.

Jane12 · 04-24-2015, 07:35 PM

Perfect! Thanks much eschwartz!

Barty · 04-25-2015, 01:05 AM

One more thing to consider: with the ad version, when you turn on the kindle after it goes to sleep you need to do a swipe to dismiss the ad. That means if you get a flip cover when you open it you have to swipe the screen before you can start reading. Not as nice an experience. I think that is the main reason people pay to get rid of the ad.

harriska2 · 04-25-2015, 03:16 PM

Unless you leave wifi off and don't register the kindle. Then when you flip the cover, you start reading immediately.

04-24-2015, 05:53 PM	#1
Jane12 Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 1706300 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: iDevices	Kindle Home Screen - recommended content & advertising I'm thinking of getting my father a Kindle and had a question about the home screen. In screenshots of the Kindle homescreen, I see a row of books from your library at the top and a row of recommended books from the Kindle Store at the bottom. I also see from the User Guide: "Recommended Content: When in cover view, this option allows you to display or hide recommended content from the Kindle Store on your Home screen." What happens on the homescreen when you hide recommended content? Does the whole screen fill up with books from your library? Also, where and when do special offers appear? I'm concerned it's distracting or intrusive. Thanks!

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04-24-2015, 06:18 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Recommended content can be disabled in the settings menu, and then fortunately goes back to showing your own books there instead. Special offers appears on the sleep screen and as a small footer in the library view. Most people do not find it intrusive, especially since it most certainly does NOT appear while you are reading. The only reason why I don't like the special offers? Is because if I hadn't gotten rid of them, I couldn't use the screensavers hack (requires jailbreak) to make the screensaver show the cover of the book I am i the middle of reading.

04-24-2015, 07:35 PM	#3
Jane12 Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 1706300 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: iDevices	Perfect! Thanks much eschwartz!

04-25-2015, 01:05 AM	#4
Barty doofus Posts: 2,529 Karma: 13088847 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	One more thing to consider: with the ad version, when you turn on the kindle after it goes to sleep you need to do a swipe to dismiss the ad. That means if you get a flip cover when you open it you have to swipe the screen before you can start reading. Not as nice an experience. I think that is the main reason people pay to get rid of the ad.

04-25-2015, 03:16 PM	#5
harriska2 Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 8000000 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Corvallis, OR Device: Kindle PW2, iPad Pro	Unless you leave wifi off and don't register the kindle. Then when you flip the cover, you start reading immediately.

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