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Originally Posted by NullNix
What we did have was the next/prev buttons on the Kindle 4 and earlier, which could switch chapters, and nice chapter markers on the bottom-of-screen progress bar, also now gone. And now we've even lost the back button, so if you want to flip back to look at the start of a long article in a periodical you can't get back to where you were again! What idiot designed this?!
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I could jump start my 1975 Honda Civic (with dead battery) by giving it a push, jumping in the car, and popping the clutch. But my Prius has no clutch pedal! What idiot designed it?
(In fact, when Prius starter battery dies, you cannot unlock the doors with the wireless key fob or pop the rear hatch to get to the starter battery. Have to use a physical key to unlock one of the front doors, crawl over the seats to get back there, remove whatever's in the way of the rear hatch access panel, pop that off, flip the manual release, and finally you can remove the panel for battery access and clip on your starter cables. But by god it's a thousand times the car the Civic was, I got 500K miles on my first one before a minor collision effectively totaled it.)
To me it's apples and oranges comparison to compare ancient K4 to the current lineup. I just got a K4 (my mom wasn't using it) and it is a curiosity. The few things that might be a little better about it don't make up for how unpleasant it is to actually use when compared to the newer ones. The battery is shot, I'm going to trade it in.
I'm sorry they made it more difficult to navigate Kindle periodicals, but I'm sure they know how many people subscribe to these and it's probably a very tiny number. Reworking a 15 year old format or touching the equally old code for it would risk breaking things even worse. I retired my last Kindle subscription,
Science News, several years ago, and it is far more pleasant to read it on a tablet or phone and doesn't cost any more.