New software updates for Kindle Keyboard and Kindle 4 no comments
Today Amazon released a new software update (v3.3) for the Kindle 3. Personal Documents are now archived by Amazon, along with any annotations you have made on them and the new update allows you to download the docs to your Kindle Keyboard as needed. Personal Documents are also now kept in sync across multiple devices with Whispersync (with the exception of PDFs).
Other new features include AmazonLocal deals for the Kindle Keyboard with Special Offers and the ability to toggle the Voice Guide off and on by pressing the spacebar while holding the shift key. Voice Guide is an option (found in the Settings menu from the Home screen) that when turned on reads aloud menu options, content listings and item descriptions.
The update is being delivered over the Kindle’s Wi-Fi connection or you can download it here.
There is also a new update for the Kindle 4 — v4.0.1 — that I just noticed. I think this might have been released today as well, but I may be wrong. This update allows you to change how often the display completely refreshes itself from every sixth page turn to every page turn. This is good and may help to address the occasional text fuzziness and light ghosting I’ve noticed, but I wish there were more options between every single and every sixth page. This update will also be going out over the Wi-Fi or you can download and install it yourself here.
I’ve just installed both of these and will update here if either of my Kindles blow up.
