Amazon was busy last night adding pages on how to use the new features in the Kindle 2.5 update. For a synopsis of those features, see the post here. Although the Amazon Kindle Help pages have been updated, as of this post, the downloadable Kindle Guide has not.
Edit: Right now a few lucky ‘beta’ users are getting the upgrade. Who knows, turn on your wireless and maybe you be able to join the crowd
Organizing your Kindle
After creation, you can add items, rename or delete a collection without changing your document or book. Collections seem to only apply to Books and documents and it looks like periodicals and blogs can’t be added to them, however books can be added to multiple collections.. Similar to your clippings and notes, collections will be available on other Kindles, but it doesn’t look like they will be available yet on other devices unless Amazon is using the word ‘Kindles’ to mean Kindle devices like the PC/MAC, iPhone/iPad or BlackBerry. Importing a collection will NOT add the book to your device at the same time.
Popular Highlights
Amazon will let you opt-in to their Annotate Backup feature and your highlights will be added to the list of highlights for that book if two other customers have overlapped the same passage. Other users will see those highlights with a grey dashed underline when reading the book or on the kindle.amazon.com page. You can also share your highlights and notes on Facebook and Twitter after you link those accounts to your Amazon account.
Fonts and Text Sizes
The Kindle will have a total of 8 fonts sizes compared to the current 6. You’ll also be able to zoom any images and the zoom will utilize the portrait or landscape orientation as needed when increasing the image. PDFs can now be increased based upon set percentages and a ‘fit to screen’ option.
Kindle Password
Along with setting a password, you’ll be able to add a password hint. Should you forget the password, Customer Support can help you reset it. Self reset of the password will wipe the device.
You can see all the details on any of the new features on the Amazon website.
