[tomsem]

In my OP, I mentioned issues with Note dialog. This is what I was referring to:

In the interest of making a nice, rectangular space for Pen annotations (it's already much larger than the Note dialog on other Kindles), the Delete|Cancel|Save buttons are no longer there. It does look nice, but it's caused some issues.

Delete has been moved to a menu (which makes it harder to access), and the only way to exit the dialog is X.

If you open Note dialog and change decide you don't want to add anything, there's no way to signal intent to Cancel. When you Tap X, then you get nagged about 'hey you can't create an empty note' and have to choose Delete or Cancel (to go back to the Dialog). Awkward and annoying since the UI geniuses didn't let me Cancel explicitly.

And better than nagging would be to just remove the Note that cannot exist without any comment. I don't think anyone intends to save an empty note (what would be the use case), you can assume this is a Cancel.

Similarly if you start to enter a Note and want to Cancel, you're in a bad place: X saves what you would prefer to not Save, forcing you to Delete the note (and often a highlight) to clean its up. The only way to Delete is to open Note dialog, tap the menu icon and select Delete. Again because no explicit Cancel is available. Or you can delete the note or scribble you created and suffer the 'you can't save empty Note' nonsense. It's probably the least pain route but it's not good to punish user because they can't tell you what they want to do.

There is an asterisk next to Handwritten Note and Text Note labels, so you have at least some feedback that something has changed.

All because they have violated a very fundamental UI best practice: don't have a button that does more than one thing.

If they fix the nag on empty content (a no brainer really), then they could preserve the look and feel by adding an additional menu item for 'Cancel changes and exit'. And then X would do the expected every time (Save changes, or Close when no changes are made).