The Digital Reader

One of the members over on MobileRead noticed that there is a new firmware update out for the Amazon Kindle. The release number is 2.3.3, and it’s avaialble for both versions of the K2 and the KDX. You can get the update by turning on Whispernet and requesting it, or you can download it here and manually install it.

Amazon hasn’t released a list of improvements, but there is already some early feedback:

• That spinning wheel in the upper left every time it awakes, not letting you even open a book for awhile, has been improved to very little time.
• Much less time closing a book and opening one. That wheel was spinning all the time after update 2.3.
• When you rotate the DX, you have to tilt it a bit further before it auto-rotates, Hooray! And it is faster changing orientation now back and forth.
• All the delays v2.3 put in seem to be gone.