Disable "Recently Opened" feature?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

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

Nearly useless. It shouldn't have the last (up to 3) books added. On a Sage or Elipsa it's a useful way to swap between a book and an Advanced Notebook you created for more than simple annotations (or exportable PDF annotations).
Maybe there needs to be a checkbox to "lock" an item in the list and it should ONLY have things actually opened.
If you are doing research and a main book and loads of other books, you'd want to lock your main book and advanced Notebook related to research on the list.

I agree, an interesting idea but badly implemented.

[Aleron Ives]

I've grown to like it, because I can use it to quickly switch between my day book and my night book. The gesture is way too sensitive, however, and as you've already said, having it display the last 3 books accessed, when newly added books count as being accessed, is a poor implementation. IMHO it should show the last 3 items you actually opened and not be affected by adding new books.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by 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

What it should show is they last three books you've opened. It should not show books just because you've added them.

Also, there is no privacy issue showing the three books.

[John F]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

I've grown to like it, because I can use it to quickly switch between my day book and my night book. The gesture is way too sensitive, however, and as you've already said, having it display the last 3 books accessed, when newly added books count as being accessed, is a poor implementation. IMHO it should show the last 3 items you actually opened and not be affected by adding new books.

Does this seem like something that the Kobo Utilities could help with? You plug in your reader, tell Kobo Utilities to save recently read. Do your side loading with Calibre. Eject. plug in your Kobo. Tell Kobo utilities to restore recently read. Eject.

Easy for me to say.

[Quoth]

There is a bug. It shouldn't list unread books just because you added them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

There is a bug. It shouldn't list unread books just because you added them.

It's doing it by date. I agree it should not do it for unread books. I cannot say if it's on purpose or a bug.

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

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

That’s only for the Discover tab, as other pointed out. It’s more of a privacy feature, but I can’t see any difference in the Discover tab whether it’s checked on or off!

[Ned]

Originally Posted by 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.

Install Nickelclock and you can have the battery percentage permanently on display at the top. One less swipe for you
(I use it to display the time on the LHS and the battery percent on the RHS)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What it should show is they last three books you've opened. It should not show books just because you've added them.

That's exactly what I said in the post you quoted.

Though, I tend to only open one book at a time. My current read is Airport. The last book I opened would be Moby Dick. But I completed that book. So I wouldn't want Moby Dick to show up in recently opened. That's why I listed a hierarchy.

Also, there is no privacy issue showing the three books.

I don't see it as a privacy issue anyway.

[Quoth]

Also books you finished should maybe be excluded?

Either it's not well thought out, or is unfinished, or has bugs, or needs adtitional user options (or some combination of these).

But it can only be ignored, not disabled. I'd like to to use it more, but it's badly designed or broken.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Also books you finished should maybe be excluded?

If you were replying to me? I already said that as well.

At any rate, as it works now, I don't believe it does show books marked as finished.

Either it's not well thought out, or is unfinished, or has bugs, or needs adtitional user options (or some combination of these).

But it can only be ignored, not disabled. I'd like to to use it more, but it's badly designed or broken.

That I agree with. They introduced something that shows potential. But then seem to have forgotten it, so it sits there being nothing more than an annoyance.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

If you were replying to me? I already said that as well.

No, just commenting.

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

At any rate, as it works now, I don't believe it does show books marked as finished.

It does. Or at least sometimes.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It does. Or at least sometimes.

Oh! I must add so many books my finished books never get a chance to show (and to be fair, I also don't often look at the recently finished. I rarely trigger it even by accident).

[JSWolf]

I don't recall seeing any finished book in the list.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Ned

Install Nickelclock and you can have the battery percentage permanently on display at the top.

I considered that, but I don't want to waste screen real estate on information I only need periodically. I have both the header and footer disabled, as I can check the clock and battery by opening the menu. There's no way to add the battery percentage to the menu header, so I came up with my own solution.