Amazon retains issuing firmware updates and altering how Kindle shows crucial data and the general performance. The most recent 5.16.10.0.1 firmware replace adjustments how the clock works and studying progress. Why does Amazon preserve altering the Kindle expertise only for the sake of adjustments? Kindle customers learn loads, and other people have questions when minor issues turn out to be vital points.
Studying Progress has acquired a complete redesign, which isn’t for the higher. Studying Progress is on the very backside of the display screen on the Kindle e-reader. It shows what number of minutes there are within the chapter and the estimated studying time of your entire e book. Amazon modified the fonts and the way in which the system works. Everytime you interact in a page-turn, the Studying Progress is the final to be up to date and could be very sluggish. If you happen to enhance the margins and choose an even bigger font, the studying progress data adjustments place adjustments, which is disjointing. The Studying Progress font can be means smaller, creating eye pressure for a lot of customers.
Many individuals don’t take note of the clock, which shows the time. Earlier than the replace, the clock would show time (2:45), however now, they show it with an additional zero in entrance (02:45). This kind of factor is named navy time and many individuals just like the older means of displaying time.
There are additionally 1000’s of studies that since this replace was issued, the battery drains quicker. Many individuals cost their Kindle each few days as a substitute of each few weeks.
Amazon’s total high quality and management have been steadily declining this 12 months. It looks like they aren’t testing the updates correctly, creating a foul consumer expertise. That is seemingly attributed to the layoffs of the Kindle division final 12 months and Lab 126, the secretive analysis and growth arm. I’ve heard from many engineers and programmers engaged on the Kindle e-readers and Fireplace Tablets that morale is at an all-time low, and the Kindle is receiving much less precedence than ever.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Publish and the New York Occasions have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
