Firmware Update K2 2.5.2 users : Praise, Scream with Joy, Discuss on this thread

[gollu]

i am writing this on my Kindle for free... what more there's to need?

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by cicsos2

No - I've manually installed 2.5.2 and created two collections - all with the Whisperjet turned off.

Thanks. That's encouraging.

[=X=]

Loving the new features the collections are great, The fact that you can have one book in multiple collection rocks. The PDF zooming is amazingly easy to use and pretty fast. It also remembers the zoom setting on a page next so one does not have to zoom on every page.

Originally Posted by gollu

i am writing this on my Kindle for free... what more there's to need?

Ditto, I just wish the Kindle had a copy and paste feature along with a select text and this device could be used for posting in most forums.

[pboss]

Excellent. Off to my cave to salivate over collections.

[elmoglick]

Originally Posted by =X=

Ditto, I just wish the Kindle had a copy and paste feature along with a select text and this device could be used for posting in most forums.

Not sure if this works in the browser, but you can copy text into the search field by highlighting and then pressing the spacebar.

[JaneD]

Originally Posted by elmoglick

Not sure if this works in the browser, but you can copy text into the search field by highlighting and then pressing the spacebar.

Whaaaaat?? I did not know this. Thank you for posting! Karma coming your way!

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, 2.5.x sucks eggs and that is being nice.

2.5.x has changed how the DRM works. So the tools to remove the DRM no longer work with eBooks downloaded via 2.5.x. I know there are other ways of stripping Amazon's DRM. But if you've been doing it via the K2, you are going to hate 2.5.x.

I partially agree. Using the Calibre plug-in was very elegant. Using skindle is kind of a pain, but I have confidence in the Dark Reverser and Apprentice Alf-they won't let a challenge stand for long! And at least I have been able to decrypt the books I have bought from Amazon since. But I must say, epub is now my preferred format - much fewer steps compared with skindle.

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by elmoglick

Not sure if this works in the browser, but you can copy text into the search field by highlighting and then pressing the spacebar.

You've always been able to do that - even in the original 2.0 version.

[=X=]

Originally Posted by elmoglick

Not sure if this works in the browser, but you can copy text into the search field by highlighting and then pressing the spacebar.

No doesn't work. I was more looking for a system wide cut-n-paste feature.

Still a cool trick thanks for sharing.

[Argel]

The title says it all really. It seems to me that that the resolution is somehow sharper. Am I imagining it? What do others think?

[DiapDealer]

I'm completely underwhelmed with the update. Even if it hadn't foul-up my dedrm routine, I've seen nothing to get excited about. I only keep a handful of books on my Kindle at any given time so collections do nothing for me. I don't tweet and I don't Facebook, so... yeah. Pretty much *meh* for me.

[Sydney's Mom]

I really love collections. I keep about 150 books on my kindle. It was really hard, from the titles, for me to figure out what a book was about - and I choose what to read by category. I have 3 books I am currently reading - a nonfiction, romance and mystery. But I just got the new Sookie Stakehouse book (which I could probably figure out by searching "dead") and I knew that is what I wanted to read. Didn't have to remember the author or title.

[Zorz]

I was mainly hoping for darker contrast, but its exactly the same.