These changes were described here a few months ago:
https://www.amazon.com/b/n=235994490...ge=en_US&ref_=
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An improved Home and Library experience (coming soon)
When in your Library, enjoy new filter and sort menus, a new collections view, and an interactive scroll bar.
On Home, access more (up to 20) of your recently read books with a left swipe
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After updating, I did Sync and then Restart, and the changes showed up immediately. (Turns out that was unnecessarily: another Kindle changed on its own).
Okay, it is mostly what I was expecting. They have managed to use even more space and List view now only shows 4.1 items on 6” screen (still 5 on 7” screen) because they now include thumbnails, and Download is now a filter so you cannot toggle back and forth as before. Collections only have Grid and not List view. I dunno, List view looks nice but still wish there were an option to turn off the thumbnails.
On the plus side they have added Publication Date to sort options (and Ascending/Descending option), you can apply filters when viewing a collection, and the scroller with page buttons lets you jump around much more easily and intuitively than before with the ‘hidden’ Go To page/title/author feature (gone now). Where there are drop down menus, the text is larger, which some will appreciate.
Note the drop down menu that was labeled SORT is now unlabeled and separates the options into Sort and View options, just like the Kindle apps. So Collections is now a View option, and no longer a Sort option, and is no longer in the Filter options as before.
It would be nice if all of the scroll bars had page up/down buttons and scrollable position indicators (in the various scrollable panels though out the UI, including Notes, Contents, XRay, Home Screen, Kindle Store).
Home Screen is now just rows of scrollable stuff. Again, the scroll bar with the draggable position indicator seems nicer than having to drag somewhere on screen and maybe opening something by mistake.
No changes in Reading mode.
Well. I’m used to it already. I do like the scroller in Library, improves navigation. And I might even use Home a little more.