05-01-2013, 08:04 PM | #1 |
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Kindle for iOS 3.7 released
Amazon has released Kindle for iOS 3.7. Doesn't seem to be much of interest to me in this release. I think they added some Japanese fonts, but no new ones for English. Looks like they added more end of book BS where they annoy you even more than before. Supposedly some bug fixes. Over all it is another disappointing update as far as I'm concerned.
EDIT: They added accessibility options for the blind. This seems to be the main thrust of this release. Last edited by jswinden; 05-01-2013 at 08:33 PM. |
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Accessibility is the main thing, and for me that is a plus, because that includes TTS-ish functionality (I enabled the Three-click Home gesture in Accessibility settings to toggle VoiceOver on and off, so now I can open a book, 3-click the Home button to turn on VoiceOver, two finger swipe down, and it will read the text out continuously. Then 3 click home button again to turn VoiceOver off. It even works with books without TTS enabled...)
Of course I'd would rather they had (after all this time) figured out how to do KF8 reflowable, and added an active table of contents/ncx browser. But this will do for now. Now do it on the Android app. |
05-02-2013, 11:10 AM | #4 |
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Apparently Bezos has a narrow-margin-phobia as well as a folder-organization-phobia! I doubt we will ever see smaller margins or better book organization. Too bad as it makes absolutely no effing sense not to allow the margins to be adjusted all the way to zero if the user so desired. Yet Amazon remains stubborn on this issue!
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What I want to know is why on the Kindles did Amazon take away the ability to allow Calibre to manage collections? The margins on the eInk Kindles is also silly. I think everyone who has a Kindle or Kindles should send them to Amazon with a note say to fix things and send them back fixed. That would get Amazon to do something. |
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But then again, who really gives a rat's backside one way or the other? As long as people understand the meaning conveyed it matters not which term is used. Certainly not worth getting your penguin feathers ruffled. Last edited by jswinden; 05-03-2013 at 10:50 AM. |
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