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#181 |
Wizard
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Join Date: May 2017
Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8
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I dislike 5.21.4. I hate the new options under Aa. I can not get the line spacing right. It looks too wide even onthe minimal spacing option. So annoyed. Glad I moved most of my purchases to KOBO
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#182 |
Wizard
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: USA
Device: K1/K3/BasicK Voyage/Oasis1/Oasis3
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I don't think the actual options have changed with either 5.12.4 or 5.12.5. Or have they? They just moved them into another menu. The actual stuff looks the same as before to me.
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#183 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Estonia
Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2
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The new Aa menu won't appear with wifi off. I updated my Voyage manually to 5.12.4 weeks ago and still the same old menu (wifi has been off the entire time). As there's nothing worthwile in the new menu, I'll leave it as it is and am not going to update my Oases at all.
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#184 |
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Join Date: Jul 2018
Device: Kindle
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Oh this is the end of support for PW3 ?!
No 5.12.5 update... Sent from my Nokia 7.1 using Tapatalk |
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#185 |
Resident Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
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I think that unless Amazon comes out with a statement as to why there is no 5.12.5 for the PW3 and also says that there will eventually be a new firmware for the PW3 that the PW3 has been end-of-lifed by Amazon.
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#186 |
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Join Date: Jul 2018
Device: Kindle
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Oh great, wait for bug fix.
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
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#188 |
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Join Date: May 2020
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW 11
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Hi. I was also expecting 5.12.5 for my PW3 because on 5.12.4 I experience some kind of weirdness in the page change, it's kind of slower and with more ghosting than in previous versions. No battery drain problems though.
The current status of PW3 is incomprehensible, 5.12.4 announced on the download page but not available when many of us have already updated to it by OTA... ![]() |
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Resident Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
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One thing you can do is call Amazon and ask what's going on with the PW3 and 5.12.5. |
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#190 |
Still reading
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Ireland
Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper
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I'd like the PW3 5.12.3 or whatever it was. I hate the new Aa on 5.12.4 as it's moved in options better in Settings and you shouldn't have to open a book to set sharing/privacy/SM options. Also the slide style check boxes are plain waste of space and stupid concept on EVERY OS. Who started that idiotic style and why are Kobo and Amazon putting it on eink? Is it simply to match iOS or Android (where it should not exist). An image of a slide switch you tap? Not usually even labelled clearly like the switches on real things.
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#191 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New England
Device: PW 1, 2, 3, Voyage, Oasis 2 & 3, Fires, Aura HD, iPad
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#192 |
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Device: Kindle Voyage and PW3
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5.12.4 for the PW3 is still available for download here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/firmwaredow...ite_5.12.4.bin
Amazon have just removed the hyperlink from the downloads page. |
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Goodest E-Reader
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Device: PRS 500 / Kindle 5th / Kindle PW4
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Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
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#195 |
Still reading
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Ireland
Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper
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Options that used to be in Settings and use the Internet:
Aa -> More Book Mentions Popular Highlights (About this Book) Don't know were that was before? Also the popup is more than half a 300 dpi screen. The slide switch style check boxes are the WORST GUI design ever invented, apart from scroll bars that are only visible on hover. Also using scroll bars as a GUI element on Kindles and Kobo is stupid. A pair of up/down arrows. The Contents page has been dreadful to navigate for several FW versions Now Reading options under settings has only Page Refresh Public Notes Vocabulary Builder. It mangages also to have slide switches instead of check boxes, but a different style to those on Aa page. It's like an early prototype. I've managed SW / HW groups. I'd fail this. Privacy is buried in Advanced Options. You can't see what state it is without connecting. The Advertising on Home Screen is also "hidden" there. Yet on the Sort menu of the Home page (without advert), they manage to use ticks for selected. But I think those are actually "Radio button" selection GUI elements, using a sort of check box style. Win10, Android, Kobo, Kindle seem to have thrown away everything learnt about GUI design since 1975 and dreamed up ambiguous flat outline graphics with a tenuous connection to the actual usage. The interface is a mess. If something is a global setting, especially rarely changed it should be in the top level all settings. There should be TWO Aa menus: 1) A global default. 2) a per book It should ONLY have Font Face, size, line spacing and margins. Perhaps have themes shared to both. Also why the stupid large minimum margin compared to every thing else? Do they test any of this with properly chosen subjects before release? They are going one step forward and two backwards on each release. Also the update and mysterious enable later is just lazy testing or abusing the users. As is never being able to step back. Amazon are not renting these. They sell them. |
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