Thread: New option "Automatic Book Update"
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Old 07-05-2013, 04:22 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That's been there for about 6 months on Amazon UK, and I've rather struggled with it. (At least on Amazon UK) what they've done is removed the "Items with available updates" selection in the dropdown list at the top of the library listing, and provided that instead. The effects are two-fold:

1. There's now no way to see what books have updates.
2. When a book is updated via automatic book update, there's no way for you to know that it's been updated.

I've had lengthy arguments with quite senior Amazon UK management about this, but got nowhere. It's a real step backwards in terms of ease of use of your Kindle library, to my mind.
That would be a problem for those of us who keep their own backups.

The option to turn on automatic updates was near the bottom of the page. I left it off. The regular update option was still on the drop down menu. I hope they leave it.
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