10-18-2018, 08:29 PM | #46 |
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10-18-2018, 09:44 PM | #47 |
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I don't particularly like that either. Swiping on the Home page now just scrolls down or up, depending on direction. Still have the old way of doing it on my Touches.
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10-19-2018, 01:12 AM | #48 | |
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It is now an extra tap to bring up X-ray also. Not sure why, there’s room for a tappable icon at least. |
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10-19-2018, 08:40 AM | #49 |
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Where do you find x-ray now?
I looked at the new "home" page briefly and went back to the old one. |
10-19-2018, 01:36 PM | #50 |
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10-19-2018, 03:40 PM | #51 |
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I forgot I could turn it off. Now the "swipe" is back. Thanks!
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10-19-2018, 04:12 PM | #52 |
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10-19-2018, 04:14 PM | #53 | |
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I like seeing the battery %. |
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10-19-2018, 04:47 PM | #54 |
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I've found the battery % on the 7" Oasis very useful, but it reduces the number of books shown in list view.
Older firmwares on 6" screen show 8 books in list view, or with special offers, 7 books. How many books are shown under 5.10.1.1 in list view? |
10-19-2018, 05:33 PM | #55 |
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Has anyone run into any PROBLEMS introduced by this upgrade?
I don't see much in the way of must-have new features for the way I use my PaperWhite, so I'm in no hurry to upgrade. Showing battery percentage is better than not showing it, but it's still a minor thing for me. "Performance improvements", whatever those turn out to be would be good. Themes don't fit into how I use my Kindle, since I rarely change settings. Maybe turn on the light on occasion. Maybe increase the font size if my eyes are tired. But those changes are simple, and rare for me. However Amazon lets you accomplish these things - via themes, extra clicks to go through menus, etc. - I don't really care since I change things so infrequently. While there's no hurry to upgrade for me, there's also no reason NOT to, unless new problems were introduced. I haven't seen any problems reported here yet. I don't have any issues with my PaperWhite now. The thing USED TO lock up semi-regularly on many different books, but that problem appears to have fixed itself now. NOT due to any firmware upgrade - it just randomly fixed itself somehow (???). I certainly wouldn't want to jinx things by upgrading the firmware prematurely and bring this lock-up problem back. FWIW, I don't even remember what the PaperWhites Home Page looks like - I never use it. My PaperWhite is permanently in Airplane Mode. All my books are sideloaded via Calibre, and I only keep a dozen or so (max) on the PaperWhite at any given time, more than that makes it painful to navigate and pick your next book. I do that picking from my library of books in Calibre, which is much better suited for browsing a large collection, and just sideload a small batch of "possible next books" onto the PaperWhite. This leaves my PaperWhites memory 99% free and unused. |
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It is weird that it reduces number of books on a list view page on 7” Oasis. How did they manage to do that? On 6” the status bar is exactly the same height, there’s just this additional thing in it. |
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10-19-2018, 07:51 PM | #57 | |
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On the 7" Oasis, the battery % is only shown if an enlarged UI is selected as an accessibility option. It is probably a magnified version of the 5.10.1.1 UI. Maybe the book listings are also enlarged. |
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10-19-2018, 08:20 PM | #58 | |
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10-19-2018, 08:29 PM | #59 |
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Can you set theme presets for custom fonts? That feature could be super useful for fonts with different line spacing, if so.
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10-20-2018, 02:17 AM | #60 |
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