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Old 08-03-2016, 07:30 PM   #1
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New Kindle Ereader 5.8.2 firmware improve tables experience
Just released today:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=202037720

Improved Tables Experience: Reading and navigating tables inside your books has been improved with optimized rows and column spacing, a pagination indicator to preserve context for multi-page tables, and a new pop-up table viewer with zoom and pan capabilities so you can interact with large tables at any font size.

The update is available for Kindle 6th generation or later
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Old 08-04-2016, 12:45 PM   #2
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Thank you for the info.

Now updated.
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Old 08-04-2016, 12:55 PM   #3
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I have updated both my voyage and my PW2, but at this time I am not reading any books that have tables so I cannot say if it works better or not.

I did open a book with tables and they do look a lot better than what I remember them
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Old 08-05-2016, 06:20 AM   #4
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i want the ember font for my voyage, not table optimization
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Me, three! It baffles me why Amazon hasn't done it already.
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I don't know what's new but the Kindle continues to ignore “the page-break-after: avoid” clauses…
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Old 08-06-2016, 09:06 AM   #8
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I have some more information about this feature:

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Improved Tables Experience: Reading and navigating tables inside your books has been improved with optimized rows and column spacing, a pagination indicator to preserve context for multi-page tables, and a new pop-up table viewer with zoom and pan capabilities so you can interact with large tables at any font size.
In my ongoing efforts to understand the KFX format I have been monitoring a large number of books over time. When enhanced typesetting was introduced the majority of them were made available in that format, but many were not. The initial implementation of the KFX renderer supported only the most common book features.

Over time older books have been made available as KFX in groups as more features were added to the KFX rendering software. Initially no books containing HTML tables were available in KFX. Then books that used tables merely as a means to format small portions of text were added. Recently support for large tables was added.

Amazon has taken an odd approach to rendering tables. Code has been added to books in the KFX format to invoke the new pop-up table viewer, but only for content that they deem to be a "data table". (How they decide which HTML tables deserve this treatment is not completely clear to me.) The latest Kindle firmware and apps added support for this code.

I haven't checked to see whether or not anything has changed for books rendered in the older MOBI and AZW3/KF8 formats, but I doubt it.
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Me, three! It baffles me why Amazon hasn't done it already.
Baffled?! Why not ask them?

"Hi, this is [fill in], one of your regular customers. I'm baffled on why you didn't include the ember font on the new update. Could you please explain why you didn't do that?"

See? Very simple. No one wants to see a baffled member here at Mobileread!


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Old 08-08-2016, 03:13 PM   #10
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Are the checkmarks next to every book on the downloaded section gone in this update?
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Old 08-08-2016, 09:26 PM   #11
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Is there a way to force the Kindle to pull this update from Amazon, rather than sideload it?

Yes, I'm being lazy.
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Old 08-08-2016, 11:24 PM   #12
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If so, you would have to be jailbroken.

But really, who would bother figuring out how to trigger the ota daemon to do so, when it is incredibly easy to download a single file and if worst comes to worst you could simply `wget` it on the Kindle itself...
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If so, you would have to be jailbroken.

But really, who would bother figuring out how to trigger the ota daemon to do so, when it is incredibly easy to download a single file and if worst comes to worst you could simply `wget` it on the Kindle itself...
There are a lot of people who just don't like to plug their device into their computers (or don't have a computer around to plug it into). I just tried going to the software update page for my Oasis from my Oasis, and got an error that simply said
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Invalid File Type

The Experimental Web Browser cannot download this kind of file.

Only files with the extension .AZW. .PRC, .MOBI or .TXT can be downloaded to your Kindle
Is it possible to 'wget' from a non-jailbroken Kindle?

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Is there a way to force the Kindle to pull this update from Amazon, rather than sideload it?

Yes, I'm being lazy.
;chkup probably triggers this process.
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@BD,

Interesting find. I wonder which firmware they added that in?

...

Has anyone tested this?
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