Disable "Recently Opened" feature?

[Rid]

Hi, I think was mentioned somewhere before but I cannot find it. So please forgive me...

Is there a way to disable the "Recently Opened" feature that appears when you swipe down from the top of the screen while reading a book?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Rid

Hi, I think was mentioned somewhere before but I cannot find it. So please forgive me...

Is there a way to disable the "Recently Opened" feature that appears when you swipe down from the top of the screen while reading a book?

The solution is to not swipe down from the top. There's no other reason you would swipe down other to switch to another book or see what's in the list.

[Rid]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The solution is to not swipe down from the top. There's no other reason you would swipe down other to switch to another book or see what's in the list.

If I did not swipe down on the top of the screen how would I know if it is still working?

[Haesslich]

IIRC, there's a "disable recently read' option in reading settings. I don't have my Kobo on me at the moment to check.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Haesslich

IIRC, there's a "disable recently read' option in reading settings. I don't have my Kobo on me at the moment to check.

I don't see that.

Just don't swipe down. You can tap to get get menus or swipe left or right.

Generally I never use the "Swipe Down for Recent" (which includes the last added, not just opened) unless I'm using two related textbooks or an Advanced Notebook I'm using for notes for a book more than I'd want in annotations.

It's easily ignored.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Rid

If I did not swipe down on the top of the screen how would I know if it is still working?

See is what working?

[rashkae]

"Don't swipe down" is a poor answer. It's not enough of an issue to annoy me, but every time I see that list, it's because I triggered it by accident. The swipe down detecting is *very* sensitive. Maybe Kobo should adjust the threshold that triggers the swipe action.

Not to mention a pseudo reduction in privacy. (I say pseudo, because someone else looking at the kobo can always sort the library in most recent order, but that would require deliberate effort vs. kobo just throwing it out there.)

There is an option in Privacy settings to disable recently read books show appearing in 'Discovery' tab, (whatever that is,), but this does not prevent kobo from displaying recently read in the swipe down.

[Calenorn]

Settings - Energy Savings and Privacy - unclick box for "Discover Tab".

[Calenorn]

That SHOULD work, but it doesn't seem to.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

Settings - Energy Savings and Privacy - unclick box for "Discover Tab".

No, that's the adverts thing, nothing to do with "Swipe Down" in a book (or Notebook).

Edit:
Discovery is not on the menu if "SideLoadedMode=true" is in config.


I've activated Swipe Down once by accident, and I can't see any privacy issue with it.

[Rid]

Originally Posted by Quoth

See is what working?

I got a smart a#!$e answer and gave a smart a#!$e in reply.

[Rid]

My fat fingers usually trigger the feature when I try to adjust the brightness or font.

Touching slightly above any icon will display the "Recently Opened" feature.

[Aleron Ives]

The only way to disable it is to roll back to firmware 4.33, since the menu was added in 4.34. I got so tired of triggering the recently opened menu by accident every time I tried to check the battery status that I added a battery option to the reading menu with NickelMenu to avoid the problem.

[Rid]

@Aleron Ives

Gold. I think that answered the question.

[ZodWallop]

In theory, I like the "recently opened" feature. It's just that the way it is currently implemented makes it useless.

Instead of showing the last three books added to the device, it should show (in order):

1. any other books marked as in progress
2. next book in series
3. most recently added books