Amazon has announced new features for the latest model of its e-book reader with e-ink display as a link with the social network Goodreads and motivational app Freetime. The cloud storage compartment of the user can now directly manage the Kindle from Paperwhite.
The Kindle Paperwhite is, for example, get an app that stops the kids to continuous reading. And for readers of all ages comes a number social networking features.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite the Kindle Paperwhite is closely linked to the social network Goodreads. Users can point their contacts particularly interesting (or beautiful) bodies display what friends are reading, manage their collections and rate books read. Goodreads has just launched its first tablet of the series Amazon Kindle Fire. The function is part of an update to OS 3.1 Fire.
Kindle FreeTime is intended for children (and their parents). So that guardians can motivate their children to read more by pretending to them daily goals, select appropriate books and even get access to the statistics of how far their child has read (or at least scrolled) has. It is an extension of parental control. Also FreeTime way, there is already an app for Kindle Fire tablets of the series.
third new feature for the Amazon Cloud White Paper Collections announced. The owner can use it to manage its resulting in Amazon’s cloud collection, including books, newspapers and magazines, but also received by e-mail documents. The elements of the collection can be synchronized with Amazon Whispersync and send to other devices of the user, including PCs, Android – or iOS devices running a Kindle app is installed. Deleting is also possible, of course – the capacity limit of the current 5 GB
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The update will be distributed according to Amazon Paperwhite over the coming weeks to all Kindle. Those in a hurry, it can refer from www.amazon.com / kindle software updates – but currently only available for U.S. devices with an English language version. For other Kindle reader as the Paperwhite Amazon has not yet announced the new features – especially not for the unlit entry-level model, which is further for 49 € in
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[with material from Florian Kalenda ZDNet.de]
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