Firmware Update 5.4.2 has arrived with Goodreads integration

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by Yolina

Bad week for Lab 126... not only have they made a right mess of the update, but today also saw the release of a JB for the PW2

Wow I may have to jailbreak my PW, I wonder if that collections thingie will work on it? Hmmmm one must go investigating.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Wow The PW2 now has Jailbreak this is great! It's once step closer to custom fonts!

Yes mine is free from jail and I have custom pictures for screen savers instead of the dumb things they had on there (no ad model).

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Yes mine is free from jail and I have custom pictures for screen savers instead of the dumb things they had on there (no ad model).

I don't even notice screen ads on mine. There hasn't been decent offer in ages.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I don't even notice screen ads on mine. There hasn't been decent offer in ages.

I bought out of the ads. I like to open the cover right to my book.

[Yolina]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

I wonder if that collections thingie will work on it? .

I think both Ixtab and Niluje are getting their mitts on PW2s so hopefully the goodies will come rolling in at some point. Best Xmas present

In the meantime, as Booklover's already mentioned, the existing screensaver hack is working so that's a start and frankly it is just so nice to have my own pictures back!

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Yolina

I think both Ixtab and Niluje are getting their mitts on PW2s so hopefully the goodies will come rolling in at some point. Best Xmas present

In the meantime, as Booklover's already mentioned, the existing screensaver hack is working so that's a start and frankly it is just so nice to have my own pictures back!

Yes, I am not doing anything unless it has been proven to work. I am quite capable of screwing things up, so I don't need to push my luck!

Originally Posted by booklover6

I bought out of the ads. I like to open the cover right to my book.

Me too. I bought out the ads and bought the "official cover" so I can just open the cover and be at my book! Although I rarely use the PW2 now.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Me too. I bought out the ads and bought the "official cover" so I can just open the cover and be at my book! Although I rarely use the PW2 now.

I don't use mine that much. When we get the margins hack, I'll probably use it more.

And if they the smart folks can figure out how to disable that new collections BS, I'll be so happy!

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by jswinden

Me too. I bought out the ads and bought the "official cover" so I can just open the cover and be at my book! Although I rarely use the PW2 now.

No ads & the magnetic cover here too--and that definitely makes the Kindle more appealing to use, at least for me. Looking very much forward to additional (darker) fonts with the JB though--the screensaver hack became less important once the dead authors were no longer an issue.

I'm actually going to update my PW2 this afternoon. Thanks to everyone's posted experiences, I decided to delete all existing cloud collections via the iOS apps--they were holdovers from my K2 & Touch, I redid them on the PW2 weeks ago. Since I keep 90% of my stuff on the device anyway, that should minimize the greyed out books issue. Purging the legacy device cloud collections beforehand *should* with any luck mean I'm left just with the collections that are already on the PW2. We'll see.

Hopefully they'll clean things up eventually so that those who keep their devices relatively empty aren't forced to look at it anymore. Or perhaps our fantastic JB devs can add a tweak that vanishes the greyed out books and stupid messages when side loading or moving books between collections while wifi is off.

Edited to add:

Well it looked good for about a minute, and then poof!


I can verify this much--the "clearing out legacy device collections from the cloud" trick isn't 100% effective either.

Any collections that I've either created from scratch on the PW2 prior to the update or imported AND renamed from the Touch appear to have survived intact.

Collections imported from the Touch to the PW2 prior to the update but NOT renamed apparently went away when I deleted the existing cloud collections from iOS--even though they were on the PW2 before. They vanished from the PW2 after updating.

The books, or course, are still there, but some 20 collections will have to be rebuilt. I at least took screenshots of the collections before updating, but yeah, couple of hours' worth or work to do now.

I stand by my original statement. Crappy code happens, and it doesn't take much experience to identify it.

[shalym]

So after playing around with this today, it seems like the best way for Amazon to fix this would be to just honor the "Cloud/Device" choice. If "Device" is chosen, ONLY show things on the device. If "Cloud" is shown, then everything could be shown. The fact that it doesn't work this way just seems like the project manager wasn't thinking. (I'm not blaming the developers--it's the PM's job to determine the scope and requirements of the project, not the developer's)

Shari

[nynaevelan]

After spending a week fixing and fine tuning my collections which Amazon's assinine 5.4.2 update fudged up, don't you know it, I get an email from Kindlean stating they have updated the program and now it works for the Paperwhite again. UGH, some days I really hate electronic devices and all their crappy software!!

[booklover6]

My solution, don't use any collections. Not exactly what I want, but better than all those redundant pop up messages.

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by booklover6

My solution, don't use any collections. Not exactly what I want, but better than all those redundant pop up messages.

That is not an option for me, I have too many books on my device and I do not want to remove them, and waste the space, I am already limiting what I put on there as it is. Though I will say I have given up on putting them all into the multiple collections which I normally put them in. At this point I am just making sure there are in at least one to remove them from the home screen.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

That is not an option for me, I have too many books on my device and I do not want to remove them, and waste the space,

I know what you mean. My PW2 is lightning fast, in part because I only have 18 items on it. I now have "cover view" on, since I don't have any collections. I'm not going to do any collections until those redundant pop up messages are removed (either in the next update, or by a hack).

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

That is not an option for me, I have too many books on my device and I do not want to remove them, and waste the space, I am already limiting what I put on there as it is. Though I will say I have given up on putting them all into the multiple collections which I normally put them in. At this point I am just making sure there are in at least one to remove them from the home screen.

I find Calibre plugboards an excellent substitute for collections. I have 800-odd books on my PW2.