Thread: Firmware Update Firmware 5.11.1.1 released
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Old 04-11-2019, 09:02 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
The Read/Unread filter has magically shown up as I was writing this! It does not involve a software update, mine was 5.1.1 before and remains 5.1.1. It is also enabled for iOS and Android apps, as I discovered earlier today..

I suspect Read status is conferred automatically if you go through the Before You Go workflow, and not otherwise. It does not seem to matter what the current reading position is.

But BYG feature didn’t always exist, so I’ll have to go through my Previously Read collection and make sure all of those are marked Read before I delete that collection, and then go through my To Read collection to make sure none of those are Read before deleting that. Large collections are painfully slow to manage on Kindles, and these are the two largest ones I have by far, so good riddance.
The BYG? The obnoxious thing with stars that returns you to last page if you click closed? It ought to optional.
1) It might not be a book even on Amazon.
2) The version Amazon takes you to could be an inferior version. See 'The Guardian' expose on idiotic Amazon Review system.
3) You might not want to give a star rating anyway as it's giving away part of your privacy and it's too simplistic a way to rate books.

Can I somehow disable that star rating page at the end? They didn't use to have it.

I have 5.11.1.1 on a Kindle PW2015/PW3 bought last November. I don't see an "read" filter. It's annoying that read books are at the top of the MRU list on home screen.
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