The latest Kindle app for Android now has a new feature where it estimates how much time remains for you to finish your chapter. Hmmph. All that does is distract the reader, not sure how useful this new ‘feature’ is. I find it doubly annoying that Amazon sees fit to add this complete fribble of a ‘feature’ while they still cannot get the basics right. For example, a consistent font experience would be great. You know, if I select a font size, it would be nice if it stayed that way instead of changing with different books. Even within a book, switching font sizes can be an amusing (not) experience. All too often increasing the font size will give you cartoon size fonts while the standard font will be too small. Consistent font experience please.

Another gripe is the lackluster dictionary. When you select a word with a hyphen in it, it will bring up only the part before the first hyphen. There appears to be no way to force it to explain the full word that I can see. Try selecting tete-a-tete next time.

So yeah. Lets fix the fonts and the dictionary before releasing useless ‘features’.

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