I’ve seen a bunch of latest posts on reddit these days with individuals complaining about modifications to the studying progress indicator that’s on the backside of the web page whereas studying on Kindles.
Apparently the newest software program replace, model 5.16.10.0.1, modified the look of the studying progress indicator, which exhibits the proportion learn and offers estimated studying instances, and a few individuals are saying it’s a lot slower to reply now when biking by means of the totally different views.
It doesn’t appear to be any slower to alter to me, however it’s at all times been a bit finicky—it’s a must to faucet in simply the suitable spot for it to alter.
It does appear like they made the scale of the studying progress indicator smaller, although. Some individuals are saying it’s too small now and it’s onerous to learn. That appears to be a pattern with Kindle updates these days; some time again they modified the settings menu and the font is method smaller than it was once, and there’s no strategy to change it again.
Amazon additionally modified the location of the studying progress indicator with the final replace. It now follows the margins of the book as a substitute of at all times being within the decrease nook, so now if you change the margin dimension the indicator strikes to remain consistent with the margins.
Nevertheless, I seen that it doesn’t comply with the margins on the Kindle Scribe; it simply stays in the identical place like earlier than, and it’s positioned outdoors the margin as a substitute of being consistent with it.
I like checking the studying progress as soon as in awhile to see the place I’m at in a e book, or to see how for much longer it can take to complete a chapter or a e book, however I discover the indicator is distracting to my eye, so I at all times preserve it off and cycle it on simply to verify once in a while. Possibly they determine making it smaller and preserving it consistent with the margins might be much less visually distracting.
What do you consider the change? Is it annoying or is it higher? I don’t know why Amazon’s software program builders proceed to mess with small particulars like this which were the identical for a few years. It simply appears to needlessly annoy individuals who get used to issues being a sure method.
