Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Amazon Paperwhite Update Brings Goodreads, Kindle FreeTime & Cloud ... - TechCrunch

Yesterday, Amazon upgraded its newer generation of Kindle tablets with the release of an updated version of its mobile operating system, Fire OS, and today the company is Extending similar updates to its Kindle Paperwhite devices. Amazon Announced this morning que the new software update for tablets will Paperwhite Introduce Goodreads deeper integration and support for Kindle FreeTime, among other things. The FreeTime parental control software, instead of focused on locking down the tablet’s apps and games, will now help parents September reading goals for kids and Their track progress.

Amazon has been steadily working to build the social community for readers, Goodreads, more deeply into its Kindle devices in recent months. The with yesterday’s release of OS 3.1 Fire, Paperwhite devices will now Also allow for things like sharing your favorite passages and quotes from the book to Goodreads Kindle, without having to launch the browser, for example. Also Goodreads users can see what books are popular, trending among friends, and can rate or review books upon completion.

For parents who bought school-aged children to Paperwhite to Encourage a focus on reading, the introduction of Kindle FreeTime will be an added plus, as it now lets Them September daily reading goals for kids, October pick books for kids, and keep track of the child’s progress. Also kids can earn achievement badges for reading milestones – like 1,000 pages read, for example – Which is something parents choose to award Could be more directly, in whatever system They use household in Their Own – Like additional allowance, extra screen time, or contributions toward a larger gift, perhaps.

Also new with this release are Cloud Collections, Which again, like the Kindle Fire OS update, include the ability for users to organize Their books, magazines and newspapers in groups que sync between devices over Amazon’s Whispersync technology.

The updated software is being rolled Out Now via an over-the-air software update over the next few weeks, or Kindle owners can download it for Themselves here.

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