Amazon pushed out a new software update about a week ago and pulled it within a few hours, this was because there were a number of errors with the 5.19.3 build, such as the battery draining super fast. Page-turn speed was greatly diminished, and the UI was very sluggish. It looks like Amazon has resolved these issues and is now distributing 5.19.3.0.1.
The latest Kindle firmware now supports improved USB-transferred PDFs: PDFs transferred to the Kindle via USB now include the latest reading features, including text selection, highlights, notes, and improved navigation. On Kindle Scribe, you can write directly on your sideloaded PDF files. On Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, PDFs display in color. There were also performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.
There were a few other fixes not in the patch notes, such as reducing the borders on sideloaded manga files; they’re now smaller, so manga fills most of the screen. The dictionary on all Kindles with this new update looks better and more polished.
The update is available for the Kindle Base 11th generation, 12th generation Kindles, and all variants of the Kindle Scribe. You can view this page to see whether the Kindle can install it.
Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
