Removing recommended books from home page - Kobo Aura 2

[Reads A Lot]

Originally Posted by davidfor

The number of opened books only affects the top row. And once you have three open, that prevents anything else from occupying the top-right spot. For me, the middle-right changes between an author and a collection. The author will be for the book I am reading or recently finished and will show if there is at least one more book by the author to read.

The rules for the collection are similar, but I never see large collections, such as my "ToRead" collection, so it might include a size factor in the rules.

I noticed that too - I borrowed a bunch of books, put them on my kobo, opened a bunch. All that did was move the recommended books from the top right to the lower right and 'bump' the less recent open book off the screen. UGH!

[Reads A Lot]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

You could always get a bunch of free ebooks from a site like Gutenberg.org. They have plenty of classics which are absolutely free. That might be preferable to seeing what Kobo suggests to you.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Thank you for reminding me of this site. I have come across it but not yet used it.

[Reads A Lot]

Originally Posted by haydnfan

I don't see why this is a big deal since you can bypass the home screen and go straight to your library from whatever book you're reading.

Also the home screen has always had a recommended tile. You could dismiss it but every sync would bring it back.

a) if it is not a big deal to you then why bother making the comment? Gaslighting is not useful on me.


b) to me it is not a big deal but it is an irksome one.

c) whether or not I can go straight to my library from the book I am reading, the homepage is always the homepage when I turn on the ereader

d) the point is NOT whether or not I can bypass the homepage from the book I am reading. The point is that I have purchased the reader and have no interest in receiving this type of advertising from the kobo company.

e) if you had read my initial posting then you would know that while the kobo 1 allowed for the recommended reading icon to be dismissed (and no, it never did come back after I did syncs). The kobo 2 does NOT allow this icon to be dismissed, at least not in a way that I can discover (nor apparently that the kobo help knows). That was the entire point of my initial question - does anyone know how to dismiss this icon because the long press dismissal does NOT work on the kobo 2 as it had on kobo 1

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Reads A Lot

d) the point is NOT whether or not I can bypass the homepage from the book I am reading. The point is that I have purchased the reader and have no interest in receiving this type of advertising from the kobo company.

e) if you had read my initial posting then you would know that while the kobo 1 allowed for the recommended reading icon to be dismissed (and no, it never did come back after I did syncs). The kobo 2 does NOT allow this icon to be dismissed, at least not in a way that I can discover (nor apparently that the kobo help knows). That was the entire point of my initial question - does anyone know how to dismiss this icon because the long press dismissal does NOT work on the kobo 2 as it had on kobo 1

This has nothing to do with the device. Or, almost nothing to do with it. It's a change in the firmware. If you update the older device to the current firmware, you will get the new home screen. So, the only way it is related to the device is that there is no version of firmware that can be run on the...

OK, I give up, I don't know what device you are talking about. The subject for the thread is "Aura 2". I would usually assume that is the "Aura Edition 2". But, the device in your profile is "Kobo Aura 2 H2O" which I would have taken to mean the "Aura H2O Edition 2", but it might mean you have an "Aura Edition 2" and an "Aura H2O" but left out a comma for brevity. And here mention the "Kobo 1". That I would have taken to be the very first Kobo, but it never had the tiled home screen. So you could be talking about the "Aura" (original, released six months after the "Aura HD") or the "Aura ONE" (7.8" device released late last year). And now you mention the "Kobo 2". I have no idea what that is.

I know I am being a bit pedantic about this, and for this discussion it doesn't really matter as all the devices starting with the Touch run the same firmware and have the same home screen. But, there is just enough difference in them that being clear about the actual device means the rest of us don't have to make guesses. Of course, this isn't just you, there are other people here whose abbreviations for the devices aren't as clear as they seem to think. Clarity in any discussion helps.

Now, where was I?

There is no way that I can find to remove the recommendations from the current home screen. But, I haven't seen it on my devices for a while. The place you are seeing it is taken up by either an author or a collection. I don't know what triggered the change other than time and reading a few books.