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tomsem · 03-30-2026, 01:04 PM

Slow page turns and battery drain can be caused by re-indexing content following update (which always happens). And if Kindle is loaded with manga & comics, it's gonna take awhile for that to complete (never mind there is usually no text in there to index).

I updated to 5.19.3 manually (including Paperwhite 11th generation) but since I do not side load AZW3 none of these issues affect me. 5.19.3 was there yesterday for 11th generation, so presumably they will be getting update to fix AZW3 issues.

I don't side load PDF either and was not aware anything was broken about it (unable to annotate at all?) for the older Kindles getting updates. But nice that Colorsoft Kindles show PDF color now and Scribes can write on them (I suppose that's okay for puzzle PDFs that would not need annotation to be exportable).

03-30-2026, 01:04 PM	#24
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,164 Karma: 28000007 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Slow page turns and battery drain can be caused by re-indexing content following update (which always happens). And if Kindle is loaded with manga & comics, it's gonna take awhile for that to complete (never mind there is usually no text in there to index). I updated to 5.19.3 manually (including Paperwhite 11th generation) but since I do not side load AZW3 none of these issues affect me. 5.19.3 was there yesterday for 11th generation, so presumably they will be getting update to fix AZW3 issues. I don't side load PDF either and was not aware anything was broken about it (unable to annotate at all?) for the older Kindles getting updates. But nice that Colorsoft Kindles show PDF color now and Scribes can write on them (I suppose that's okay for puzzle PDFs that would not need annotation to be exportable). Last edited by tomsem; 03-30-2026 at 01:20 PM.