Kindle Firmware 2.5 May Be Downloading to Your Kindle Right Now
In a post on Amazon’s Kindle discussion boards, a Kindle user named S. Foster recounted some compelling details from a conversation had with an Amazon tech. Foster found out that the update has already been rolled out to 20,000 customers in order to reduce strain on the server and troubleshoot. Whatever problems Amazon found have been fixed, and now Amazon is beginning to send it to more customers.
But, here’s the most interesting bit:
The update can take 2-4 days to download to your Kindles!
I suspected this might happen, as a 10mb binary file is hard to compress (unlike books, which compress pretty nicely).
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