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Congratulations Amazon, you've now made it painful to use the products I've bought.
Amazon has ruined the Kindle.
Two major issues have destroyed my love of Kindle. First, the new ones have a lower memory but tout the ability to store data on an SD Card. What they don't say is that books can only be stored on internal memory, not the SD Card. This may not be a problem for some, but I have just shy of 2000 books in my collection, including many with audible narration. So if you think you can get by with a low end memory model think again.
What really kills it for me though is the new interface. On my older Fire I could put my books into collections, then pin those collections to the home screen. I open up my Kindle, one tap on the collection, one tap on the book, and bam I'm reading.
Contrast with the new interface. You can no longer pin things to the home. Instead, I have to swipe to my books. Then I have to click on my library. Then I have to click the menu button. Then I have to click on the collections option. Then I have to wait on the collections to load. Then I have to scroll down to the collection I want. Only then do I finally get to open my book.
Congratulations Amazon, you've now made it painful to use the products I've bought.
It goes even worse, as any of the menus I went to I felt like I was being bombarded with "buy me" messages. Every tab had tons of stuff it thought I should own, and I had to drill down to get to the stuff I already own. It actually interferes with my ability to get to my own purchased content.
I used to be a huge Kindle fan, but sadly no more. I'm returning this one. If you'll excuse me I'm going to go sit in the corner and sob quietly into my coffee over the death of a once excellent product.
October 2015 · Electronics · verified purchase