08-25-2024, 08:20 PM | #1 |
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Double COlumn mode disappeared from my Scribe
This happened over night. All of my books are KFX, some side-loaded and some from Amazon. I did briefly go online to download a new book, and it did not delete my side-loaded books, but when I opened a book that I had previously been reading in double column mode, it was just in regular landscape. I looked and the option for double column has disappeared from all of my books. Any ideas?
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08-25-2024, 08:32 PM | #2 |
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Yet another in a long line of amazon takeaways of a feature people like?
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08-25-2024, 08:38 PM | #3 |
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It's still available on my Scribe, running 5.16.10.0.1
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08-25-2024, 09:03 PM | #4 |
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08-25-2024, 09:14 PM | #5 |
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And weirdly now its back. I put the Scribe back online for a few minutes to see if the current firmware updates (it did not), and then when I put it back into airplane mode the feature was active again. Go figure....
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08-25-2024, 10:18 PM | #6 |
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There seem to be quite a few Amazon Kindle features that require Amazon to OTA activate making keeping your Kindle ereader offline permanently hard to do. Your two column mode might require a connection to Amazon to keep it active. Sounds pretty stupid but that seems to be the default mode for many corporations.
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08-25-2024, 11:48 PM | #7 | |
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Agreed, it is idiotic, when all of these features worked fine offline in the past. In the past I have kept it in airplane for months without a problem, but since the disappearing side-loads started I have been logging in once a week or so. IN this case apparently it needs to stay connected for a full ten minutes or so. |
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08-26-2024, 10:02 AM | #8 |
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I wonder if it's possible to run some kind of system-level tracker on Jailbroken Kindles to monitor filesystem changes when new features are remotely enabled by Amazon.
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