Sunday, April 1, 2012

Kindle Fire 6.3 Update Makes Ebooks More Social

Mashable reporting:
Amazon has issued its latest software update for the Kindle Fire with a change that makes reading ebooks a lot more social.
The 6.3 Kindle Fire software version, released Thursday, lets device owners share favorite passages and notes from their ebooks on Facebook and Twitter. Passages and notes can already be highlighted and seen by other Kindle Fire readers viewing the same book, but Amazon wanted to bring the sharing and conversation online.
Among the new updates is a feature called Book Extras. This allows users to see supplemental material — from character descriptions and a glossary of common terms and locations used in the book to author information — without leaving the book. This feature can be accessed by tapping the top of the screen to bring up the toolbar and menu button, where Book Extras is located.
In addition, users who write, take notes, highlight passages and create personal documents within the device can store them in the Amazon Cloud and access them at any time via the Kindle Fire.
Amazon also announced an upgrade for its Kindle Fire browser, Silk. The browser can now load certain text on a website and isolate it from the rest of the crowded page.
http://mashable.com/2012/03/29/kindle-fire-6-3/

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