Following on from yesterday’s announcement of the latest update to the Kindle Fire HD operating system, Amazon and GoodReads announced an update today to the Kindle Paperwhite second generation software which brings Cloud Collections and GoodReads integration as well as Kindle Freetime. Both Amazon and GoodReads have posted press releases on the update. Note that this is only available at this point for the second generation of Kindle Paperwhite released earlier this year. As with the Kindle Fire update, you can choose to wait until the update is sent to your device automatically, sometime over the next few weeks, or you can go to the update page, download the software and install it manually. I chose to install manually, and the instructions are very clear and very easy. It took me all of about 10 minutes to update my device. GoodReads Integration This was announced along with the Fires and Paperwhites and was something I was particularly looking forward to. I’m very active on GoodReads (check out my profile) and was excited about a tighter integration with Amazon. When you update the software you see the new G GoodReads logo on the top menu and when you click are prompted…
My Kindle Paperwhite second generation arrived today so I decided to take a moment to share my thoughts. My initial reaction is that this second generation of Amazon’s popular eInk eReader is more evolutionary than revolutionary. The improvements to the screen and processor, while noticeable, are not overwhelmingly so. I, personally, was not particularly bothered by some light shading at the bottom of the screen, but I know that many people are sensitive to this. That is improved considerably on the second generation of Paperwhite. Here are some screenshots: The new Kindle is on the right. The new version does seem to have a warmer sense about it. and with the new Kobo Aura The new combined Dictionary/X-Ray/Wikipedia screen seems really useful: (Note – the shading at the top of that screenshot is not a faulty screen – it’s decorative shading on the book itself) Probably the most useful is the new page scrolling function – you can now move about easily within a book with a new navigation tool. The feature that I am most excited about, GoodReads integration, isn’t yet here – it is “coming soon” via software update. This takes me back a few years when…