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Old 08-14-2020, 06:10 PM   #181
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The old tiled home screen was not all that good for a lot of people. ou know where your tile was, but it's moved and changed size. So you have to go look for it and it may not be that easy to some. When you think about it, the tiled home screen was a mess. It needed some serious fixing. All the tiles needed to be the same size. There needed to be a pin to home so the tile stays in the same place until it's no longer needed. because the book or collection was removed.
from your comments you obviously don't mind not being able to dismiss the tiles/books from the home screen. why you would be happy having less user control of said home screen than before surprises me. but hey in life you often get what you settle for. each to their own

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Old 08-14-2020, 08:59 PM   #182
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Out of my 4 Kobo e-readers (Aura (x2), Glo HD, Clara HD), I only installed the new firmware on 2 of them for now, and feel as though Kobo wanted to make the UIs of their e-readers and tablet apps more consistent, but I miss the horizontal swipes too, and the option to jump to a specific page in a long list in the menu.
If they made the scrollbar wider it would've been better than the 'tapping and then inserting page number' being the only option. That obviously was designed for the newer Kobos with the page turn buttons.
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Old 08-14-2020, 09:27 PM   #183
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Out of my 4 Kobo e-readers (Aura (x2), Glo HD, Clara HD), I only installed the new firmware on 2 of them for now, and feel as though Kobo wanted to make the UIs of their e-readers and tablet apps more consistent, but I miss the horizontal swipes too, and the option to jump to a specific page in a long list in the menu.
Why do you miss the horizontal swipes? They still work in exactly the same way as all previous firmware versions. Nothing has changed about swiping to turn the page in the various lists.
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Old 08-14-2020, 09:32 PM   #184
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from your comments you obviously don't mind not being able to dismiss the tiles/books from the home screen.
If you long press on a book on the home screen, one option is Remove which in turn gives you the option to just remove the book from the home screen.
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Old 08-14-2020, 11:37 PM   #185
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Anyone else getting insanely good battery life with 15505? I installed it on my KA1 a few days ago and have done about 3-4 hours of reading (admittedly using KOReader) and it's still at 100%. Makes me wonder if it's not stuck there.
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Old 08-15-2020, 01:57 AM   #186
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All in all I preferred the older firmware. I liked arrows, but now I sometimes open a book when I just want to scroll through the list page.

And then if we also consider the poor accuracy of the touch of the Aura One, the problem is even more serious.

Maybe it's more "cute", maybe you save a touch but it's less functional.
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Old 08-15-2020, 04:57 AM   #187
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from your comments you obviously don't mind not being able to dismiss the tiles/books from the home screen. why you would be happy having less user control of said home screen than before surprises me. but hey in life you often get what you settle for. each to their own

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The current home screen shows me the books I am currently reading. So I just have to select the one I want. I don't need to dismiss anything in place of something I am not reading. Collections are no longer the same because of the new series tab.

For the tabbed home screen to work for more people, then they would have to totally redesign it.
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Old 08-15-2020, 07:01 AM   #188
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Is it possible to have something else than 'discover' on the homescreens bottom line? Maybe 'activity'?

Apart from this, i can live with the new design. It isn't so bad.
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Old 08-15-2020, 08:06 AM   #189
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Firmware 4.23.15505 mark 6 is not fully translated into spanish. Mark 7 is correct
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Old 08-15-2020, 08:25 AM   #190
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That is very strange. Usually the update files are the same except for the device specific files. What is missing?
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Old 08-15-2020, 09:59 AM   #191
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If you long press on a book on the home screen, one option is Remove which in turn gives you the option to just remove the book from the home screen.

excellent thank you. the last time i tried that it removed the book from the device. granted that was an earlier 4 Firmware version, i'm not sure which one it was.

all i need now is the option to be able to sort collections by recent like you can with authors/books

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Old 08-15-2020, 11:21 AM   #192
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I hate the new firmware. Not easier to navigate. That slider thingy is so frustrating.

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Old 08-15-2020, 11:25 AM   #193
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For the tabbed home screen to work for more people, then they would have to totally redesign it.
Well, yes. I'm one of those that misses the tiled homescreen. But if it were to be brought back, I'd assume it would be redesigned/updated.

At any rate, I like the newest home screen.
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Old 08-15-2020, 11:28 AM   #194
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Controversial idea, and I haven't thought it all through yet. But should the new bottom row buttons also appear in the Reading menu?
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Controversial idea, and I haven't thought it all through yet. But should the new bottom row buttons also appear in the Reading menu?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
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