Firmware update 5.10.1.1

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by overture1922

Great! This worked! Thank you.

I did not know that not all the books supported the new fonts.

I had forgotten this also, but it's probably because I use Calibre to convert mobi books to AZW3 – it's almost an automatic process for me now. it's easy and well worth it if you want to read with a specific font.

[overture1922]

Originally Posted by rcentros

I had forgotten this also, but it's probably because I use Calibre to convert mobi books to AZW3 – it's almost an automatic process for me now. it's easy and well worth it if you want to read with a specific font.

Good advice! I will try this!

[overture1922]

Thank you for the help guys! I´a m beginner in the kindle world and it is awesome!

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I updated both our Voyages and my Oasis 2 this morning and I like the update, particularly the new home screen.

The home screen? It's abusive advertising, like the useless Kobo Home screen. I have recommendations off. I don't expect to buy outright an eReader, phone, Tablet or laptop and have adverts. Basically spam.
Fortunately unlike the Kobo H2O I have (which lost the earlier ad free screen), the old home screen still works.

[Quoth]

Themes feature is a good addition.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

The home screen? It's abusive advertising, like the useless Kobo Home screen. I have recommendations off. I don't expect to buy outright an eReader, phone, Tablet or laptop and have adverts. Basically spam.
Fortunately unlike the Kobo H2O I have (which lost the earlier ad free screen), the old home screen still works.

Tbh I think your view is a bit extreme but if you don’t like the new home screen turn it off.

[Pyjam]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

The home screen? It's abusive advertising, like the useless Kobo Home screen. I have recommendations off. I don't expect to buy outright an eReader, phone, Tablet or laptop and have adverts. Basically spam.

I completely agree.
Not only that but while the engineers at Amazon were working on it, the bugs remained unfixed and useful features were delayed.

[Quoth]

I just updated my 1 week old PW3 (aka KPW gen7) to this SW today and later downloaded the audio sw for the USB dongle (or generic USB audio). Since then it's been occasionally (done it four times) been restarting/ rebooting from sleep (Lights up, goes out, progress bar etc and then is on home screen).
Is this due to adding the audio firmware, or delayed reaction to the USB Logitech headphones? The headphones work via USBtoGo cable adaptor on my Android phone, but don't activate the Voice menu. Still, a USB stick is under £2 / €2 / $2 on eBay or Amazon. Or a bug in the new main firmware (applied first)?

[Waylander]

Am I able to turn the battery percentage off? Or is it non-optional?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

... it's been occasionally (done it four times) been restarting/ rebooting from sleep (Lights up, goes out, progress bar etc and then is on home screen)...

It's stopped doing the random waking and rebooting. Fine now.

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

The home screen? It's abusive advertising, like the useless Kobo Home screen.

I've been following this thread to see if I should update the PW 2nd gen I gave to my Dad when I bought my Clara HD. There is no advertising on my Home screen. Although there's a link that would take to me some advertising, should I wish to see some.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

The home screen? It's abusive advertising, like the useless Kobo Home screen. I have recommendations off. I don't expect to buy outright an eReader, phone, Tablet or laptop and have adverts. Basically spam.
Fortunately unlike the Kobo H2O I have (which lost the earlier ad free screen), the old home screen still works.

I just turned it off. It doesn't seem worth whining about. It would be interesting to see how many people who actually read on the ereader keeps the advertising active.

[Atunah]

I always turn the ads off on my kindles. I order it with ads and then pay to take them off.

I don't consider the home view as advertising. I get the 3 books I am reading and on the right are my own reading lists. These are my samples, my wish lists from amazon, my lists from goodreads, etc. On the bottom and the second page there are various things that change and rotate. Most of them are recommendations based on what I read and buy. On the very bottom I get currently a most wished for kindle book. I guess that might be considered an ad. But to me ads are those horrible sponsored books when I browse on amazon. The ones the authors pay for.

Stuff on my home view is 90% lists based on my own shelves and wants. The rest are curated lists done by amazon.

Since I am a heavy user of goodreads and amazon wishlists, I think it works for me. Not sure what shows up if you don't use either of those functions.
I cannot browse for books on amazon on a computer anymore because of mis-categorizing and all those sponsored ads authors buy and are placed in the wrong genres. Nothing fits. The recs on my kindle via goodreads and also amazon are now way better.

But they let you turn it all off so that is good for those that don't want it.

[Sirtel]

I just use the list view for my homescreen. The only thing I see are my books and collections. No advertising, no recommendations, nothing.

I suppose I might turn on the other view for curiosity, once I've updated my Kindles, just to see what's new.

[Nausicaa]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I just turned it off. It doesn't seem worth whining about. It would be interesting to see how many people who actually read on the ereader keeps the advertising active.

I wouldn't mind the ads if they were better targeted. Its terrible because it shows me nothing I want. A few years ago they had a coupon for a 256 SSD for $99 (it was normally $200ish) which made me feel the ads were worth it. Haven't seen such a deal since, only on crappy romance novels and fictional books.