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Updated to 8.1 last night and didn’t have any issues getting it to update. Going to have to use it for a week or so to give a fair appraisal, but first impressions were not great.
Initial thoughts/concerns:
-Battery: Made sure it was fully charged before doing update and after update (which took about half an hour) and an hour of reading, battery was drained to below 80%. Yes light was on for reading, but on prior firmware it would take a week of night reading (6 to 8 hours over the course of a week) to see the battery drain that much. The majority of the drain might have been during the updating process, so will have to see how it does over time.
-Stock reader: Cuts far more words in half than previous version. Previous version would so this some, but it’s much, much more noticeable now. What I mean is this paragraph on the stock reader could look like this depending on how big you size the font:
Cuts far more words in half than previous ver-
sion. Previous version would so this some, but
it’s much, much more noticeable now. What I m-
ean is this paragraph on the stock reader could lo-
ok like this depending on how big you size the font
It’s annoying to the point that I’m going to have to give another reading app a try. Will try KoReader tonight.
If battery drain continues, I might give reverting back to older firmware a try. Nothing immediately stood out to me as an improvement and so the real reason for updating to 8.1 would be for the added security of a newer OS, but for me I leave wifi off 98% of the time and never make any purchases directly via the eReader.
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