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jhowell · 11-15-2019, 04:49 PM

One other bit of news on this topic.

There is a discussion thread in Amazon's Kindle help forum where customers are expressing their unhappiness with the new widow/orphan behavior in the 5.12.2 firmware. One of the posters claims they were told by customer service that the "kindle team is working to resolve this issue through a new update, which should kick in in about a week".

I have my doubts. I believe that Amazon is going to fix the firmware, but are they going to revert to the prior behavior or just keep the new default and obey w/o overrides if present in content? Also, a fix in a week seems unlikely since Kindle firmware comes out approximately quarterly and 5.12.2 just came out about a month ago.

11-15-2019, 04:49 PM	#33
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,211 Karma: 93000007 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	One other bit of news on this topic. There is a discussion thread in Amazon's Kindle help forum where customers are expressing their unhappiness with the new widow/orphan behavior in the 5.12.2 firmware. One of the posters claims they were told by customer service that the "kindle team is working to resolve this issue through a new update, which should kick in in about a week". I have my doubts. I believe that Amazon is going to fix the firmware, but are they going to revert to the prior behavior or just keep the new default and obey w/o overrides if present in content? Also, a fix in a week seems unlikely since Kindle firmware comes out approximately quarterly and 5.12.2 just came out about a month ago.