Thread: Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions
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Old 10-04-2013, 11:36 AM   #557
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Originally Posted by Haesslich View Post
They threw away TTS and audiobooks when they and Sony were among the only ebook reader makers to have the feature when the PW1 rolled around, so I wouldn't be too surprised.
What... they just added that feature to the KPW1 about 3 weeks ago. To leave hardware features out of a new device is one thing, but to leave out software features you just introduced to the predecessor is just stupid. This feature on the KPW1 is an incentive to NOT upgrade, at least for some.

As Amazon said that they are going to backport any features that don't rely on the new hardware to the PW1, I assume that they'll port the dictionary lookup forward to the PW2. As these readers are about 95% the same, I wouldn't be surprised if the firmware ends up to be the same (or nearly so) too.
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