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Amazon Kindle Fire software and Kindle iOS apps updated

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Amazon updated its Kindle Fire software and iPhone and iPad apps this week, adding new features all around.

For the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s first tablet and a hot-selling item, the update promises to improve the responsiveness of touch navigation and the speed of actions on the device, such as loading webpages in the Fire’s Web browser.

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However, the biggest new feature might be the ability for users to edit what shows up in their ‘carousel’ of recent apps and content displayed on the Fire’s home screen.

Before the update, a Fire user couldn’t remove any items -- books they’ve read, games and music played, movies watched or websites visited -- in their carousel.

The ability to remove items from the carousel was a highly requested feature and in this case, Amazon was pretty quick to deliver -- the Fire was released Nov. 14.

The iOS Kindle app updates the user interface for periodicals and text books, with access to the same selection of more than 400 magazines and newspapers that are offered on the Fire, Amazon said in a statement.

For the first time, Amazon is also offering ‘print replica textbooks’ to iOS Kindle app users, which allow for full-color pages and the ability to zoom in and out or take notes as needed, the company said.

And the update also now makes the Kindle iOS app a PDF reader as well, Amazon said, which will allow users to view their own documents -- a feature offered by iBooks for some time now.

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-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles

Nathan Olivarez-Giles on Google+

Twitter.com/nateog

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