Kindle App Redesign - Page 9

Blossom · 10-28-2017, 10:45 AM

Kindle Fire/Kindle Android list view has always had thumbnails. Google Play only has list view with thumbnails. I like thumbnails. I wouldn't know what book it was otherwise. Titles and author doesn't tell me much but a cover. I can remember everything about a cover.

Sent from my Nexus 7

HarryT · 10-28-2017, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Blossom

Kindle Fire/Kindle Android list view has always had thumbnails. Google Play only has list view with thumbnails. I like thumbnails. I wouldn't know what book it was otherwise. Titles and author doesn't tell me much but a cover. I can remember everything about a cover.

The way to make everyone happy would be to make the thumbnails optional. Without them, the list view could display a lot more entries on a page.

barryem · 10-28-2017, 12:24 PM

I prefer list views to thumbnails. I can easily remember authors and titles. Thumbnails by themselves don't always let me know what a book is.

I've just deleted the Kindle app on my phone and re-installed it and downloaded my current book and my likely next book. It was using 2.41 gig. It's now using 349 meg. I haven't yet downloaded the audio version of either book. I'm not sure if I'm going to.

Barry

Blossom · 10-28-2017, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by barryem

I prefer list views to thumbnails. I can easily remember authors and titles. Thumbnails by themselves don't always let me know what a book is.

I've just deleted the Kindle app on my phone and re-installed it and downloaded my current book and my likely next book. It was using 2.41 gig. It's now using 349 meg. I haven't yet downloaded the audio version of either book. I'm not sure if I'm going to.

Barry

Give it a awhile to rebuild it. You will be using 2.4GB. You can't change the size of the database no matter how much you want to.

Sent from my Nexus 7

Alohamora · 10-28-2017, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Blossom

Kindle Fire/Kindle Android list view has always had thumbnails. Google Play only has list view with thumbnails. I like thumbnails. I wouldn't know what book it was otherwise. Titles and author doesn't tell me much but a cover. I can remember everything about a cover.

That's how I remember my books too.

Every now and then I'll spot something different in my library and wonder where did that come from?

Then I realize it's a new cover for an old book.

Alohamora · 10-28-2017, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I've always had recommendations I don't own on my home screen in the Kindle app.

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Wasn't it possible, years ago, to completely turn off recommendations on the home screen? I've a strong recollection that it was, at least on some platform.

Blossom · 10-29-2017, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Alohamora

Wasn't it possible, years ago, to completely turn off recommendations on the home screen? I've a strong recollection that it was, at least on some platform.

You can on the Kindle Fires never on the Kindle app.

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HarryT · 10-29-2017, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Alohamora

Wasn't it possible, years ago, to completely turn off recommendations on the home screen? I've a strong recollection that it was, at least on some platform.

You can certainly turn them off on eInk Kindles, and you don't see them on either Kindle for PC or Kindle for iOS.

DiapDealer · 10-29-2017, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Alohamora

Wasn't it possible, years ago, to completely turn off recommendations on the home screen? I've a strong recollection that it was, at least on some platform.

Yes. I could always turn off recs on the home screen of my earlier FireHD and the app on my Nexus 7 in the past. I just chose not to. I like seeing recommendations--even if quality ones are few and far between.

tomsem · 10-29-2017, 02:47 PM

The Fire’s Kindle app has been updated as well (10.30.188_1201698810). Has the new app icon, and adds the ‘V’ Close Book icon to return to Library (before you had to use the slide out navigator to close the book, or use Back system button).

[correcting version number to 10.30.188...]

Blossom · 10-29-2017, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

The Fire’s Kindle app has been updated as well (10.10.188_1201698810). Has the new app icon, and adds the ‘V’ Close Book icon to return to Library (before you had to use the slide out navigator to close the book, or use Back system button).

Waiting to see if my KF6 gets it. So far I still have the old one.

Sent from my XT1528

DiapDealer · 10-30-2017, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

The Fire’s Kindle app has been updated as well (10.10.188_1201698810). Has the new app icon, and adds the ‘V’ Close Book icon to return to Library (before you had to use the slide out navigator to close the book, or use Back system button).

Mine's 10.30.188_1201698810 on my new Kindle Fire 10.1. The reading app looks no different to me than the day I bought it. Auto updates have been turned from day one, and no updates are pending. The home screen on my Fire looks nothing like the stand alone Kindle app on my Nexus. Are you certain it's been updated?

DiapDealer · 10-30-2017, 12:12 PM

Perhaps the seventh gen Kindle Fires already had the newest to begin with. But if so, it certainly doesn't feel like the latest stand-alone app at all. The home page only shows your books. Recommendations are only found in the store. And even then, there's no true integration of Goodreads' "To Read" shelf. Rather, clicking on the Goodreads' To Read category in the Kindle Bookstore merely opens the Goodread app to the To Read shelf.

If this is the updated Fire version, then the new stand-alone Android version of the Kindle App is infinitely more intuitive, in my opinion.

tomsem · 10-30-2017, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Mine's 10.30.188_1201698810 on my new Kindle Fire 10.1. The reading app looks no different to me than the day I bought it. Auto updates have been turned from day one, and no updates are pending. The home screen on my Fire looks nothing like the stand alone Kindle app on my Nexus. Are you certain it's been updated?

I’m certain there was update. The Kindle Books thumbnail changed, and there’s now a ‘V’ Close Book icon in reading mode when you bring up reading options (or if you swipe navigator from left it says Close Book and not Library).

Fire 10.1 is new, may well have had this from day 1.

Fire doesn’t have the same Library/Books UI as the Android app. I do prefer the Android (or iOS) UI but that does not match ‘Fire OS Design Language’. So they are going to remain different.

tomsem · 10-30-2017, 01:29 PM

Am I the only one who finds the new app icon/splash screen sort of disturbing and confusing? How is the boy able to read under the stars with no reading light? What the heck is he doing out there in the middle of the night? Won’t his parents be worried? Is reading just for boys?

I realize it is a re-working of the artwork they’ve been using for ten years, but this has taken a dark turn.

10-29-2017, 02:47 PM	#130
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,951 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	The Fire’s Kindle app has been updated as well (10.30.188_1201698810). Has the new app icon, and adds the ‘V’ Close Book icon to return to Library (before you had to use the slide out navigator to close the book, or use Back system button). [correcting version number to 10.30.188...] Last edited by tomsem; 10-30-2017 at 12:40 PM.

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10-28-2017, 10:45 AM	#121
Blossom Treasure Seeker Posts: 18,708 Karma: 26026435 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kobo HD Glo, Kindles, Kindle Fires, Andriod Devices	Kindle Fire/Kindle Android list view has always had thumbnails. Google Play only has list view with thumbnails. I like thumbnails. I wouldn't know what book it was otherwise. Titles and author doesn't tell me much but a cover. I can remember everything about a cover. Sent from my Nexus 7

10-28-2017, 12:24 PM	#123
barryem Wizard Posts: 2,459 Karma: 68781975 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Arkansas Device: Paperwhite 4	I prefer list views to thumbnails. I can easily remember authors and titles. Thumbnails by themselves don't always let me know what a book is. I've just deleted the Kindle app on my phone and re-installed it and downloaded my current book and my likely next book. It was using 2.41 gig. It's now using 349 meg. I haven't yet downloaded the audio version of either book. I'm not sure if I'm going to. Barry

10-30-2017, 12:12 PM	#133
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,645 Karma: 204624552 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Perhaps the seventh gen Kindle Fires already had the newest to begin with. But if so, it certainly doesn't feel like the latest stand-alone app at all. The home page only shows your books. Recommendations are only found in the store. And even then, there's no true integration of Goodreads' "To Read" shelf. Rather, clicking on the Goodreads' To Read category in the Kindle Bookstore merely opens the Goodread app to the To Read shelf. If this is the updated Fire version, then the new stand-alone Android version of the Kindle App is infinitely more intuitive, in my opinion.

10-30-2017, 01:29 PM	#135
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,951 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Am I the only one who finds the new app icon/splash screen sort of disturbing and confusing? How is the boy able to read under the stars with no reading light? What the heck is he doing out there in the middle of the night? Won’t his parents be worried? Is reading just for boys? I realize it is a re-working of the artwork they’ve been using for ten years, but this has taken a dark turn.