Kindle firmware 5.13.2

[hius07]

Version 5.13.2 – August 2020

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW

[JSWolf]

Looks like the PW3 is not EOL. Well done Amazon. It's about time.

[Gandulf]

They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft

That's just from the user's point of view.

As far as Amazon is concerned, the Kindle's function is to sell ebooks and subscriptions.

[Gandulf]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

That's just from the user's point of view.

As far as Amazon is concerned, the Kindle's function is to sell ebooks and subscriptions.

And to keep track of how long I spend on the loo.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

And to keep track of how long I spend on the loo.

Well Amazon did just announce their new health tracking system today:

Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness

("Tone feature uses machine learning to help customers get a more complete view of their health and wellness by understanding how they sound to others," Nothing at all creepy about that )

[Gandulf]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Well Amazon did just announce their new health tracking system today:

Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft

I would have said are they partners with Apple. OSX is a bit of a mess.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I would have said are they partners with Apple. OSX is a bit of a mess.

Hmm...well, if you're implying that the Kindle software is a bit of a mess because of the number of recent firmware upgrades, what does that say about Kobo?

Shari

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by shalym

Hmm...well, if you're implying that the Kindle software is a bit of a mess because of the number of recent firmware upgrades, what does that say about Kobo?

Shari

It's a mess because of the mess Amazon made with the PW3.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

They seem to have a lot of bugs for a device that's only real function is to read books, are they a part of Microsoft

The first law of software: All software sucks. (More specifically, all software has bugs. The only real questions are whether the bugs impact people, and how many people they impact, and how severe the bugs are.)

(And yes, *all* software. Even 'hello world' probably has hidden bugs in the startup code the linker added to the program. The canonical case of this is the horrible x86 hardware hack that is the A20 gate, the (originally) keyboard controller feature, (later) CPU pin, (later yet) special CPU bus cycle that turned on wrapping of the 1MiB--1MiB+64K range of physical memory to 0--64K. It took years to track the actual bug down that forced the addition of this hardware misfeature -- and it was in the startup code added to programs by a specific ancient Pascal compiler: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-a20-...asnt-wordstar/). This caused literally decades of pain for hardware vendors, emulator developers, etc. The thing only started being removed from PCs in the last eight years or so!)

[tomsem]

I must say, the general enhancements in this update are some of the best I’ve never seen!

[JSWolf]

I'd like to know what in the reading experience is better. Seems the same to me.

[melksnor]

Originally Posted by idab

I own the PW3

There are more people using the pw4 than the pw3 currently.

5.12.5 can't run on it. It would require a rewritten kernel.

It's not "difficult" it just takes time and lots of testing.

5.12.5 isn't available because it's not worth spending that much money on software engineers to bring it to the pw3

I would rather them focus all development power on current gen devices and future releases. I think 99% of people agree.

Time for @idab to come and eat his hat with all that kernel re-write nonsense

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Looks like the PW3 is not EOL. Well done Amazon. It's about time.

Yep. Thank goodness! Now I can keep keeping my PW3 at firmware 5.10.7 without having to worry whether it's EOL or not.