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Originally Posted by Richwood
I have virtually all Kindle reader models, all still working. Basically other than refinements little has been new since the PW3 with the 300 DPI E-ink Carta screen. Two old features that were dropped that I would like to see reintroduced are the text to speech feature for most books that was dropped after the Kindle Touch and the reading progress bar that disappeared from the firmware on all models after the Kindle NT. Also like to see page turn buttons or sensors on all Kindle reader models. A text input function via a USB or Bluetooth keyboard would also be nice. Maybe a Bluetooth remote control too.
I doubt that we will see any major changes to the User Interface any time soon.
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There's still text to speech via bluetooth as an accessibility option for blind users but you have to put up with the rest of the blind user interface, and the TTS voice starts going on my nerves after a while. One thing I was excited about my last PW was audiobook support, but unfortunately it's limited to Audible and would probably require me to let the Kindle go online, so it's wholly useless. Page turner buttons yeah I miss those too, so much easier instead of going backwards or selecting text by mistake every so often, espec when I'm tired. New PW is also back to that gummy dirty-fingerprints back side, etc.
That's the sort of thing that grates me with Kindle. I've owned 3 Kindles manufactured over the span of 5 years, but none of them was what I'd call an upgrade over the previous one. You get some new features, lose old ones. Both times I got a new Kindle I already had someone lined up to whom I gave away my old Kindle. If I hadn't, I'd be really pissed at spending that much money for a mere novelty.