11-15-2023, 07:24 AM | #1 | |
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Kindle firmware version 5.16.5
Kindle firmware version 5.16.5 is now available for 10th and 11th generation Kindles and Kindle Scribe.
Scribe release notes: Quote:
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11-15-2023, 08:12 AM | #2 |
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The Collection with List layout is also present in 5.16.4.
I wonder why they would list that there. |
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Each new firmware release contains a few new features that are only visible if remotely enabled by Amazon. They call it Weblab. |
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11-15-2023, 08:42 AM | #5 | |
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Seems like the browser remains unchanged from the last update. Still the same results at html5test.com. Whole system seems a little faster over all, but probably just because it got restarted.
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11-15-2023, 10:33 AM | #7 |
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Looking at the Scribe firmware one significant change I see is the ability to reformat the user storage partition to ext4 during a factory reset.
I don't know if this is actually enabled yet but it makes sense for them to do that now that the partition is only accessible via MTP. |
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11-15-2023, 11:32 AM | #10 | |
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UPDATE: I found https://github.com/NiLuJe/KindleTool Last edited by Kluyg; 11-15-2023 at 11:57 AM. |
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11-15-2023, 12:36 PM | #11 | |
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There might be no difference in performance for the user, or it might be very slightly slower or slightly faster! FAT32 and exFAT use multiple directory entries for long file names (VFAT extension), so Ext4, NTFS and APFS can sometimes be faster. FAT predates MS-DOS and has been "extended" about 5 times, the most famous being long filenames for Win95 (which was stupid, as NTFS was already nearly 3 years old, released in 1993 on NT3.1). The only reason FAT is/was used was simplicity and compatibility. NT in theory could address exabytes in 1993, but exFAT was needed to sensibly use more than a 32 G Byte partition with FAT32. Floppies used FAT12. |
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11-15-2023, 02:35 PM | #13 |
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My 'glass half empty' take:
Searchable Notebook PDF is a start, but what I would really like is to have a handwriting recognition service on Scribe that would create an index so you can search and jump directly to the page in question (this would also apply to sticky notes and PR annotations). You might think they could make all handwriting in exported PDFs searchable (sticky notes, PDF annotations) by default. Even with Notebooks you only get it when you explicitly choose Convert to text. It turns out that bulk 'move' only applies within a single notebook. Still no way to copy or move pages from one notebook to another one, apart from Lasso copy/cut and paste. Last edited by tomsem; 11-15-2023 at 03:05 PM. |
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Thanks for steering me in the right direction! Spoiler:
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11-15-2023, 10:55 PM | #15 |
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BTW not announced, but annoying (to me) is this new addition: https://imgur.com/IeOATfj
It's to "zoom out" back to default zoom if you used "pinch to zoom" feature. |
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