Kindle firmware 5.13.2

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by Quoth

How?

Or is your Kindle Jailbroken?

Works for PW4 only.

[cortejador]

Originally Posted by nimbus.se

Has anyone noticed any changes in the search function with this update?

Nothing new here on my PW3

Yes, when you search anything and got the result list, tap to one of them. Then you jump the given part of book, and you will see a navigation bar at the bottom of screen, this bar is the new improvement. With this you can walk back and forth in the result set directly, and finally go back to the original position.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I decided to add hinting to ChareInk and after doing so and loading the hinted version to my PW3, in KF8, the font looks better at font size 4. So I would suggest that if you are using a side loaded font, check for hinting and if there is none, add hinting. Seem the Kindle font handling system prefers fonts with hints which is why Bookerly is buggered because hinting was removed.

FreeType has multiple hinting engines (because the original hinting scheme is, groan, patented), plus can attempt to autohint on its own in the absence of manual hinting. That's all that's going on here (well, plus the ludicrous removal of manual hints from Bookerly even though the autohinter clearly is doing a worse job).

[Proximanova]

Whatever features this update brings, personally the most important one is to fix the buggy font picker, which crashes after every few seconds. I know I sound like Eeyore, but Amazon has pretty much destroyed my Kindle experience since April. Font selection is eeyorething—I mean, everything—to me.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Proximanova

Whatever features this update brings, personally the most important one is to fix the buggy font picker, which crashes after every few seconds. I know I sound like Eeyore, but Amazon has pretty much destroyed my Kindle experience since April. Font selection is eeyorething—I mean, everything—to me.

I've not read of the "font picker" crashing before this. Are you sure it's not due to one of the fonts you have installed?

[Buran]

I don't know if the fonts I added are hinted or not, but they look ... different. The one that I'd really been liking now looks 'bad' (which is a subjective thing, I know).

I'm now looking around some free font sites for some alternatives to try. I'll find something eventually.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Buran

I don't know if the fonts I added are hinted or not, but they look ... different. The one that I'd really been liking now looks 'bad' (which is a subjective thing, I know).

I'm now looking around some free font sites for some alternatives to try. I'll find something eventually.

Try ChareInk. A lot of people like it on a Kindle. Download the unweighted hinted version and up the weight in the Aa menu.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056

[Roos]

Hi folks,

I use % read in the book (right bottom corner) as default 'where are you in the book' option.
Since last firmware update (?) i have to set that for every damn book, whats up with that? Is there a way to force it to stay active?
I suspect it is related to the bit in settings moved to 'Page Layout', but it sucks monkey balls :-(

Do you all experience this behaviour also? Or is it a bug in my Kindle??

Thanks

[SeaBookGuy]

I keep my settings for that as None. However, just now I checked putting it as % read and page number, which seemed to carry through for all books. I dislike it as the page/location is meaningless for me, unlike Sony that specifies X out of Y pages.

[Buran]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Try ChareInk. A lot of people like it on a Kindle. Download the unweighted hinted version and up the weight in the Aa menu.

Thanks! I snagged it, and it's a good one. I also found a print-oriented (rather than designed-for-web) version of my previous font, along with a bunch of other fonts that are good; I just don't like them as much.

So now I can get my books looking like they did before.

Could the sudden display weirdness also be related to the fact that the 'new' version of my preferred font is .otf instead of .ttf? I don't know the details behind the scenes.

[Gandulf]

Originally Posted by Roos

Hi folks,

I use % read in the book (right bottom corner) as default 'where are you in the book' option.
Since last firmware update (?) i have to set that for every damn book, whats up with that? Is there a way to force it to stay active?
I suspect it is related to the bit in settings moved to 'Page Layout', but it sucks monkey balls :-(

Do you all experience this behaviour also? Or is it a bug in my Kindle??

Thanks

Noticed that as well, mine changes even when reading the same book and not even opening another.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by Gandulf

Noticed that as well, mine changes even when reading the same book and not even opening another.

You do know that you can change the display setting by tapping at the the very left bottom corner? No need to go into settings. Maybe you are touching it on accident trying to change pages?

[Roos]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

You do know that you can change the display setting by tapping at the the very left bottom corner? No need to go into settings. Maybe you are touching it on accident trying to change pages?

Nope, I did not know, I might touch the screen there when turning pages.
I think you might be onto something, at least this is an easy fix, Thanks!

[Gandulf]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

You do know that you can change the display setting by tapping at the the very left bottom corner? No need to go into settings. Maybe you are touching it on accident trying to change pages?

No I do not know now I do, thanks. What else don't I know

[Deskisamess]

You can't "lock" the setting for the reading progress either. Tapping the bottom left toggles through the choices available for that book.