05-11-2017, 02:21 PM | #151 |
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It seems that the new homescreen is not customisable
That's pretty bullshit since 70% of it is wasted space but obviously since the firmware moves forward also in terms of the reading experience which is after all 98% of my usage I have to live with it. It seems though absurd to actively annoy a significant part of the userbase in this way, |
05-11-2017, 04:37 PM | #152 |
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Even though I liked the old home screen, I went with the new update which makes the new home screen mandatory. I like the fast access to the books and collections. I'd like to be able to customize the author tile. At the moment it shows an author of Pocket articles. At least it doesn't show recommendations but some of my own content.
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05-11-2017, 06:05 PM | #153 | |
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I agree that the full screen of dynamic tiles was better for the home screen, I think the new Home Menu that gives quick access to almost everything is worth it. As for search, you can fix the affected books by using the TOC editor and Calibre, and pressing the "Generate TOC From Files" Button. (you don't have to delete the old table of contents, the new one will simply be appended.. Looks ugly, but works around the Kobo Epub limitation.) |
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05-11-2017, 07:58 PM | #154 |
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Sorry, but a lot of you are still assuming the new home screen works exactly like the version in the 4.3 firmware. It doesn't. It looks like the same but there are changes. I'm pretty sure that if you never connect to Kobo, the only thing about the store you will see is the link in the bottom left. That takes about the same amount of space as the store link in the old home screen. I do sync with Kobo and I do buy books from them. But, right now my Glo HD only has something store related in the bottom two places. The store link on the left, and the number of "Super Points" I have on the right. That is LESS Kobo stuff on the home screen than I typically saw on the old tiled home screen.
Of the store related items, there are several that won't appear for people who don't buy books from Kobo. "Related Books" only appears if you read books from Kobo. The "Wishlist" only appears if you have put books in the Wishlist. Super points only appear if you have bought books. Recommendations will probably appear if a sync happens. I'm not trying to say that the new home screen is better than the old tiled home screen because I don't think it is. But, things are not as bad as the recent posts here make out. |
05-11-2017, 08:17 PM | #155 | |
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I admit it; I could live with the new screen if something happens that mandates it. But I'd be unhappy, for a while. My current regret is that all of my devices are registered to my account. If I had it to do over again, I'd use a null email and cut most of the marketing off. |
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05-11-2017, 08:47 PM | #156 | |
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On the Aura, I was seeing the covers for unsolicited books where on my KA1 it just shows a random author. Not sure where the covers came from since I never had anything remotely like them on my Aura and since I hadn't attached my Aura to the internet to do the update. That area seemed to be rotating through different headings such as "Recommendations", "Top Picks" and "Good Reads for Under $5". (Wish I had copied down the exact headings.) What I think happened was that, because all my books were on my external micro SD card, there were only a couple of them and they were only epubs, I suspect that the device was just trying to plug something into that spot because it couldn't find an author to fill it with. Agreed. Not ideal, but I can live with it (on my KA1) for the increased responsiveness, despite all my previous whining about the new screen. |
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05-11-2017, 09:25 PM | #157 |
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Do you mean collection tiles? The old home screen did show show tiles from the store for their categories if you visited them. I would consider that to be "Kobo stuff", so I'm just checking your terminology.
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05-11-2017, 10:30 PM | #158 |
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05-12-2017, 02:02 AM | #159 |
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Compared with my current homescreen which has about 90% of screen that I can actually use and and want (I only would want to get rid of that search bar on top) |
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05-12-2017, 03:16 AM | #161 |
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What I like about the new home screen
What I don't like
Incidentally, my words (reachable through activity in the top left menu) has improved: I can now access dictionaries from the words, and sort them alphabetically or by most recent, but there is a new problem: trying to access a book from which I chose the word had the reader restarting. |
05-12-2017, 03:35 AM | #162 | |
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I want the info about annotations I want to show my finished books I don't want to delete the book from the reader, I even don't want the option (I know I'll accidentaly delete books from my reader that way...) And I don't want an icon nor a search bar. About direct access to my books, ok, I have to select a menu item. |
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05-12-2017, 04:29 AM | #163 | |
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And I've just looked at the home screen on my Glo HD. The only thing on it that is remotely advertising is the store link in the bottom left. EVERYTHING else is a book, a collection, an author or something that opens an action that does not need the WiFi on. You have simple choice: Go back to a previous firmware, probably 3.19.x, or put up with it and actually learn how it works. |
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05-12-2017, 04:39 AM | #164 | |
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Are you allowed to say how many collections can be pinned to the home screen? |
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05-12-2017, 04:40 AM | #165 | |
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And I don't need to go back to a previous firmware as I never updated the firmware in the first place. The first firmware I was actually considering using was the one that contained the new and "improved" homescreen... And thanks to that new and "improved" homescreen, I'll never update my firmware either. |
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