About that “improved Home and Library experience”: where is it?

[tomsem]

A few months ago, there was this page about the latest update, and things to come:

https://www.amazon.com/b/n=235994490...f_=as_li_ss_tl

Including this:

An improved Home and Library experience (coming soon)
When in your Library, enjoy new filter and sort menus, a new collections view, and an interactive scroll bar.

On Home, access more (up to 20) of your recently read books with a left swipe.
Library and home screen shown

Wonder what is taking them so long?

I’m not sure they can improve Home enough that I would actually use it, but as to Library improvements:

- maybe there will be a Compact Sort option that will show more items per page
- maybe there will be filter options for Started and Not Started
- maybe they are finally going to make Collections behave like they do in the mobile apps (which I am guessing would be ‘controversial’ but I would be in favor of)

Of course there are any number of other features I would like them to surprise us with, in order of decreasing expectation:
- Author grouping is long overdue
- Some implementation of Immersion Reading (at least play the companion audiobook when viewing text and synchronizing page turns)
- TTS with support for more languages/voices (optional downloads as on Fire tablet), or at least VoiceView support for more languages/voices

Shall we start a pool on when the promised update will finally show up, with extra credit for guessing previously unannounced features?

[wireman]

I've been wondering about this too. In particular, I thought the "interactive scroll bar" might alleviate some people's irritation at how few books are displayed on the library page.

Seems like this whole thing's about three months late. Maybe Amazon's run short of programmers?

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by wireman

I've been wondering about this too. In particular, I thought the "interactive scroll bar" might alleviate some people's irritation at how few books are displayed on the library page.

Seems like this whole thing's about three months late. Maybe Amazon's run short of programmers?

I don’t think the ‘interactive scroll bar’ would alleviate much: they need to have a more compact option for displaying more items (e.g. ‘Compact List’ in addition to ‘List’ and ‘Grid’).

I think it has to be a pretty small team working on this.