Amazon has launched one more software program replace for all tenth, eleventh and twelfth technology Kindles, together with the new Kindle and new Kindle Paperwhite fashions for 2024.
The newer Kindles have a distinct software program model (5.17.1.0.4) than earlier gen fashions (5.17.1.0.3), and the Kindle Colorsoft continues to be lacking from the updates web page so it’s not included on this spherical of updates (in truth, Amazon nonetheless hasn’t up to date the software program on the Colorsoft because it was launched).
As soon as once more, Amazon doesn’t present any particulars in any respect in regards to the new software program replace (they usually acquired the month fallacious once more—the changelog is dated September) so it’s in all probability one other a kind of updates that isn’t definitely worth the time of putting in.
These days Amazon has been releasing software program updates for Kindles each few weeks, and 9 occasions out of ten the updates don’t truly do something, at the very least not from a person’s perspective.
Many of the Kindle updates launched over the previous two years have simply been bug repair updates to repair issues launched with earlier updates. Now it’s a cycle that simply retains repeating itself.
Amazon has been steadily including new options to the Kindle Scribe like they did with the 5.17.2 replace from final week, however different Kindles nearly by no means get any new options anymore. They did enhance web page flip velocity with one of many updates from a pair months in the past, however most Kindle updates are only a waste of time today. Bugs which have been inflicting issues for years nonetheless stay unfixed. There are a selection of inconsistencies with the person interface that by no means get addressed. Font sizes are missing. It’s been over 2 years because the Kindle Scribe was launched and you continue to can’t view notes from the Scribe on different Kindles. So what’s the purpose of those countless updates?
Rant apart, you’ll be able to obtain the newest replace from the Kindle Software program Updates web page at Amazon if you wish to set up it manually. In any other case your Kindle will replace mechanically in some unspecified time in the future whether or not you need it to or not. The enjoyment of pointless software program updates by no means ends. Really it does finish finally after a Kindle turns into sufficiently old. My Kindle Voyage hasn’t been up to date in years and it has much less issues than newer Kindles, and someway it nonetheless works effective with out getting up to date each few weeks.
