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Originally Posted by pghaworth
kind of excited. my Oasis 3 is being delivered today... finally
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Look out when populating it. I've found so many horrible bugs in Amazon's systems when populating mine: I do wonder if they test their stuff at all.
Among many others: trying to push-download from the Manage Your Kindle screen pushes 32 books and then claims to have pushed the rest but actually doesn't; the cloud collections appear to register additions to collections but not removals, so some of my collections have huge amounts of ancient debris in them; and after pulling in about 150 books by the old-school method of triggering a download for each one in turn, this brand-new Kindle went from being very slow to being locked up solid, so solid it couldn't even flip to the screensaver when you hit the power button. It's still pulling stuff off the net so I'm leaving it on the charger overnight, and then I can download some more. I have about a thousand more books to go. This is going to be very, very boring.
The Oasis 1, despite its much slower processor, had none of these problems, but that was probably just luck. Amazon's (non-AWS) software is renowned in the industry for being a pile of badly-tested crap tied together with string and baling wire that breaks whenever you do anything remotely unusual, and I think this is just a sign of that.