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The new Kindle dwelling monitor ditches the top row of buttons in favor of a huge look for bar and a two-tab design that toggles among the Property display and your Library.
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The Library view. Matters generally function as they did in advance of, it is really only the UI throughout the prime and bottom of the monitor that has transformed.
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You now obtain machine configurations with a smartphone-esque swipe down from the best of the screen, and the new brightness slider is a great deal additional responsive than the outdated a single. (Some of these options will range centered on the Kindle you have more mature types won’t give Bluetooth or Dark Method).
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These menus have gotten a bit more compact during the Kindle OS.
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The Kindle browser has missing its “experimental” labeling, nevertheless as much as we can explain to, it is nevertheless precisely the exact browser it was ahead of.
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The top navigation when you’re reading a e-book improvements, too, acquiring rid of the aged buttons and swapping some textual content labels for icons.
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Even though lesser, most menus have the same products in them that they did just before.
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Amazon will at last notify you what Kindle you happen to be utilizing in the Product Details display screen, which will not resolve its puzzling Kindle naming conventions but does at the very least make them much easier to live with.
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Kindles as much again as the 7th-technology Paperwhite (introduced in 2015) will be ready to get this update.
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Amazon’s Kindle e-viewers get new computer software updates frequently, and they are largely of the nondescript, invisible “performance improvements and bug fixes” variety. But the most new functioning technique update (variation 5.13.7) is rolling out now, and it refreshes the device’s user interface for the to start with time due to the fact 2016 or so. Amazon claims that redesigns for the Dwelling and Library screens, which are mainly untouched in the present Kindle update, will be coming “afterwards this year.”
The software package update that permits the new interface commenced rolling out in August, but for the reason that Kindles only set up updates mechanically when they’re charging and related to Wi-Fi, it will be a few months or months right before all supported Kindles will have a chance to grab the update (mine only set up it around this previous weekend). To aid you navigate the changes, the gallery earlier mentioned gives a short tour of anything that has altered.
The new update is offered on most Kindles launched in or immediately after 2015, which include the 7th- and 10th-generation Kindle Paperwhite, the 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-era Kindle Oasis, and the 8th- and 10th-generation standard Kindle. More mature “7th-era” Kindle gadgets like 2014’s Kindle Voyage you should not look to be supported. If your Kindle has not put in the update, the url higher than will give you recommendations for installing it manually.
The new update does not correct Amazon’s complicated Kindle naming scheme, which groups distinct units into “generations” that are numbered dependent about on when they were produced, not on what era of solution they actually are the “10th-era” Paperwhite is in fact only the fourth Paperwhite Amazon has introduced. But you now can head into the System Facts display and see which Kindle you are using alternatively of acquiring to guess.
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