2.5 update = 2.5.2!

[Someone Nameless]

THANK YOU.  I just updated the hubby's K2i.  Sadly he could care less as long as he can just read.     I may have to swap with him.

Dumb question but I didn't see it right off - When you are on the Kindle, I see where it says create collection.  How do you then MOVE the books into the collections?  Is it on the Kindle or on the computer. 

[telracs]

Dumb question but I didn't see it right off - When you are on the Kindle, I see where it says create collection.  How do you then MOVE the books into the collections?  Is it on the Kindle or on the computer. 

There are no dumb questions.

You add on the kindle. Go into the collection after you created it and if it's empty, you can click on the first line and then do your adding.  If there are already items in it, you click the menu and select add/remove.  Realize that when you add, it will show ALL the books in your memory (well, I don't think it shows archived items actually) and you will have to go through each page to add. 

[Linjeakel]

You add books to the collections on the Kindle. There are two ways. With the cursor on the collection push the 5-way to the right and choose add/remove books. That will bring up the list of your books and you can just go down the list clicking on the ones you want to add. It will add a tick next to the ones you choose. (Click on it again to remove the tick and the book from the collection). Or you can do it the other way by putting the cursor on a book title and pushing the 5-way to the right, then choose add to collection and it will list the collections and you go down the list clicking on the collections you want to add or remove that particular book to/from.

If you're starting from scratch I would suggest the first option.

[911jason]

I've never understood the mentality of "stop discussing other things" when you're on a discussion board. I hate that in certain threads (thankfully, not all!) we cater to people who only visit KB a couple times a week. Heaven forbid they have to scroll through a thread to find their free or bargain books, or the latest information about a firmware update.

While, yes, you can start a new thread to discuss something that comes to mind while reading in a "protected" thread, 99 times out of 100, the discussion just doesn't happen.

[Luvmy4brats]

I just looked and the 2.5.2 K2i update bin has been downloaded from the Mediafire site over 2300 times already!  I don't know how many have been downloaded from NogDog's site or the other Mediafire link that somebody else put up, but WOW!

That makes me happy 

[Linjeakel]

I just looked and the 2.5.2 K2i update bin has been downloaded from the Mediafire site over 2300 times already!  I don't know how many have been downloaded from NogDog's site or the other Mediafire link that somebody else put up, but WOW!

That makes me happy 

You've obviously made over 2,300 people very happy too! 

[BTackitt]

I just looked and the 2.5.2 K2i update bin has been downloaded from the Mediafire site over 2300 times already!  I don't know how many have been downloaded from NogDog's site or the other Mediafire link that somebody else put up, but WOW!

That makes me happy 

Now, if each of those 2300 people also donate to your SGK 3-day walk, you'd have it made.

[911jason]

I just looked and the 2.5.2 K2i update bin has been downloaded from the Mediafire site over 2300 times already!   I don't know how many have been downloaded from NogDog's site or the other Mediafire link that somebody else put up, but WOW!

That makes me happy  

That's awesome! ...and if each of those 2300 downloaders would contribute just $1 to your walk, you'd have reached your goal on them alone! =)

EDIT: You beat me to it BTackitt!!

[Luvmy4brats]

I was thinking the same thing. 

I've had many wonderful people donate and I'm at $770..so 1/3 of the way there.

I didn't do it for the donations though (although that has been a nice addition)

[jeanniespc]

I sure wish someone would put the Kindle2 US version update out here.

[Luvmy4brats]

I sure wish someone would put the Kindle2 US version update out here.

All it takes is one person who has the screensaver or font hack installed to get it and upload it.

[JetJammer]

Has any K2US even been updated yet, regardless of anyone capturing the file?  

Yes, my K2US did update a couple of days ago.  I don't know what version I was running previously (didn't think to look), but I don't run any of the hacks so guessing it was whatever was most current.  Unfortunately I didn't think to throw the hack on there to capture it for anyone else.

But keep your hopes up, the US versions ARE updating as well.

[Vicki G.]

Thanks for giving us hope, Jet.  My hack is in place and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[jeanniespc]

I have my font hack on as well....I have never gotten an update through Whispernet.

[Steph H]

Ohhhh, I have a new question for those of you with 2.5.2 -- I'm trial-ing a couple of blogs for the first time, including A Kindle World Blog.  One of her posts from earlier in the week regarding 2.5 says that a feature that hasn't been mentioned with regard to 2.5 (and I don't remember seeing it in the flurry of posts from the initial rollout either) is that long book titles will expand to the full title now when it's highlighted (much like the K1 did, for those of you like me who had K1s previously).

Can anyone confirm or dispel that? That would be way cool, that's a feature I've missed this last month or so with my K2....

[Luvmy4brats]

Yep! Look at Spell of the Highlander...

 

[Steph H]

Yippeeeee!!!!  That's one thing I've truly missed, after nearly 2 years with it on my K1.  I'm glad now that I decided to try her blog on the Kindle (I try to keep up online but never really do very well) and scroll through it tonight, that's the FIRST and ONLY mention I've seen of that change.  May have missed it in a thread/post I didn't read, though.

Thanks for the screenshot, Heather!  Hope your pre-teen slumber party is going well for you....

[Luvmy4brats]

Thanks for the screenshot, Heather!  Hope your pre-teen slumber party is going well for you....

I noticed it the other day, but didn't add the two together, I thought it had always been there and I had just missed seeing it somehow.


My cat and I are hiding... They're loud... and very chatty... and giggly  

[VictoriaP]

I noticed it the other day, but didn't add the two together, I thought it had always been there and I had just missed seeing it somehow.


My cat and I are hiding... They're loud... and very chatty... and giggly  

That would also explain why you picked "Spell" for your demonstration.    LOL!  Excellent book to read while alone or hiding.

Neat feature, I'm looking forward to this update....once the hacks for it are out, of course!

[Luvmy4brats]

That would also explain why you picked "Spell" for your demonstration.     LOL!

Neat feature, I'm looking forward to this update....once the hacks for it are out, of course!

LOL, actually I chose that one because it's the only one in my Currently Reading collection long enough to demonstrate on.

As for the hacks, I do miss them and I quickly turn the screensaver off when I open up my cover. The fonts seem just dark enough to make a difference, although I miss the Georgia font.. Nothing I can't live with for a bit.

[Steph H]

Oh and speaking of Andrys (A Kindle World Blog), she just added another update to her blog -- she has a K2US and has the update, she's done a post discussing the various features with screenshots.  So that's another verified K2US with the update.

And Heather, she gives you a shout-out about using the characters at the beginning of collection names to sort them in titles... "a work-around recommended by knowledgeable Kindle user luvmy4brats" she says.

[Steph H]

Whooops, I may have spoken too soon regarding Andrys's update -- near the end of her post, she says she got the 2.5 update right at the end of that batch, so she apparently only has 2.5 and not 2.5.2.  Mea culpa for sending up the fireworks too soon...

[Luvmy4brats]

Oh and speaking of Andrys (A Kindle World Blog), she just added another update to her blog -- she has a K2US and has the update, she's done a post discussing the various features with screenshots.  So that's another verified K2US with the update.

And Heather, she gives you a shout-out about using the characters at the beginning of collection names to sort them in titles... "a work-around recommended by knowledgeable Kindle user luvmy4brats" she says.

LOL, I told her it wasn't my idea... I only adopted the {} over the ** because they were prettier...

Maybe because I told her about it over on the Amazon boards...

[mrscottishman]

Hello to all and ships at sea,

I got brave and did it.  I knew I had a k2i.  I was already at 2.3.3 so I went to 2.3.4 and then to 2.5.2.

Worked as advertised, but the suspense was so great I went and changed the sheets on the bed so I wouldn't have to watch the bar move across like a drunken snail in a high head wind. (uphill on ice)

Now I have to figure out how the heck to do the new tricks.

Is there a new trick thread?

Thanks to all involved in snatching the updates.  Amazon should be so efficient.

best to all,
Scott

[Luvmy4brats]

Favor to ask..

If ANYBODY tries the update bin I uploaded and is able to go straight from 2.3 or 2.3.3 without having to do the update to 2.3.4 PLEASE let me know (although I haven't heard of anybody yet that has been able to yet). There is concern among some people that the 2.3.4 update is unnecessary and I'd love to be able to tell people they only needed to do 1 or 2 updates instead of 2 or 3...

Scott, I'm glad it worked for you. LOL on you going to change the sheets. At least you didn't have to resort to cookies.

As for tips, there are a few other threads talking about forcing the sort order and collection names.