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Originally Posted by NullNix
Honestly we're lucky they didn't decide to fix this in a Special Disabled-Only Kindle with ten-year-obsolete technology, ten megabytes of storage and costing a mere £4000. That's how everything *else* is handled in this area  |
True.
Good screen magnifyers for PCs still cost a fortune and are outdated whenever there is a major upgrade in the OS (not to mention the plans MS has for its OS now). And it is not only the official (legally) blind or sight-impaired who can and do need to use such magnifyers.
I have to come back to the original problem.
I still see the problem with the recent order in the booklist on both devices.
The old Kindle Paperwhite as well as the Voyage.
None got a firmware update, one is jailbroken.
The old PW is keeping the time now and newly transferred books appear as "recent" on top of the list. It seems not all books do appear and sometimes a book can simply not be found (although when connected via USB to Calibre it is listed as "on device").
There are also books near the top which I have not read for ages when the sorting is set to recent.
I am tempted to say, well, the device is old and heavily in use but .. the newer Kindle (Voyage) which I have used only sporadically does have problems with the system time and - even after the time has been corrected again - does not list "recent" correctly.
Books transferred today are not shown on top of the list and a book I finished reading which should be either on top or immediately after the new transferred books can not be found anywhere near the top.
Had to search for it to remove it from the device.
None of this is good.
Even worse, after a restart in the hope to "wake up" the memory it showed a completely wrong system time and the book list is still screwed up.
I think I once read that flash memory damage (?) can cause such problems, what do you think? The only thing both devices had to endure is an occassional (seldom) crash on the floor. Of course I try to protect them (got a nice cover for the pw) and not use them as frisbees or coaster and they did work fine afterwards but .. well .. :/