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My HD6 got OTA update to 4.5.1 today.
- Family Library support
- Prime Music Stations
- lock screen playback controls
Finally you can see if a collection item is 'on device' or not. But they have found yet another way to screw up collections. Previously (and on every other app/device that supports cloud collections) you could add to and remove from in one operation (in other words, perform a 'move'). Now you have to do that in two separate operations.
Prime Music Stations is nice but without a lot of granularity (only 34 Stations so far). You can at least thumb up/down (I assume that works somewhat like Pandora).
I set up Family Library as well. This will be nice for couples who now share a single account: each person can now have their own collections, font settings, reading position, notes/highlights, sharing options etc. But it looks like you will need a PW2 or later Kindle, or 2013 or later Fire. I'm hoping iOS/Android Kindle apps will be able to participate as well at some point.
I'm glad to see that my HD7 2013 will in fact be getting this update.
The reading features are about the same but highlighting options are a bit of a regress: it takes an extra tap to do things that only required one tap before: highlighting and search for example.
And it looks like Accessibility is more than a little broken: with Screen Reader turned on, when I try to open a book, it shows the cover splash, then dumps me back to Home screen without opening anything. I can't can't seem to open any books (or docs) at all! Even when I pause it, open the book, and un-pause from notifications, it closes the book! Fortunately I don't need to use Screen Reader, but it is a pretty serious regression for people who do need it.
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