 Hey guys, this is Joanna for The Verge and this is obviously the Kindle Fire and today Amazon is releasing an update for the device. And this one doesn't actually have the update because I wanted to show you the pre-update experience here. So one of our biggest complaints from the start about the Fire was the fact that you can't edit the carousel. So if I wanted to hide from someone that I was reading this Justin Bieber book, which I'd like to hide from the world actually, you could hit this delete button but that would delete it from the device, it wouldn't actually remove it from the carousel. The same thing with websites here, if I tap this I can only add it to favorites, I can't remove it. So that's one of the things the update is supposed to fix. The second thing the update is supposed to fix is scrolling and you can see here that in this pre-update state it's just a little bit choppy and not all that smooth. So I'm going to go grab the update and we'll see what it adds. So I got the new software update here. And the first thing you'll notice, and one of the things I actually noticed at first is that this carousel is actually a little bit slower now and it's easier to stop on things especially when you're going really fast. But as we showed before, I can now stop on, there we go, Justin Bieber and remove him from the carousel so no one knows that I was reading that book. I can also go into the browser and get a little bit faster browsing or scrolling speeds. Still a little bit slow here on the verge but admittedly it's a heavy site with both text and pictures. Definitely am seeing improvement here on the New York Times, faster in terms of pinching to zoom and scrolling. Probably not as smooth as the iPad, I don't have one to compare it to side by side, just doesn't feel like it has that same snap. I am seeing though just a better touch responsiveness as you can see just basic taps are working, something I've had a problem with in the past. Also it seems that page turns in magazines seem a little bit faster. I should probably remove this from the carousel too, don't want anyone knowing I'm reading this. Still a little bit slow with these sort of graphic heavy pages but I think it's a little bit better. So overall it's a pretty good update here for the Kindle Fire, it unfortunately doesn't fix my biggest issue with the device which is the power button on the bottom.
 Hey guys, this is Joanna for The Verge and this is obviously the Kindle Fire and today
 Amazon is releasing an update for the device.
 And this one doesn't actually have the update because I wanted to show you the pre-update
 experience here.
 So one of our biggest complaints from the start about the Fire was the fact that you
 can't edit the carousel.
 So if I wanted to hide from someone that I was reading this Justin Bieber book, which
 I'd like to hide from the world actually, you could hit this delete button but that
 would delete it from the device, it wouldn't actually remove it from the carousel.
 The same thing with websites here, if I tap this I can only add it to favorites, I can't
 remove it.
 So that's one of the things the update is supposed to fix.
 The second thing the update is supposed to fix is scrolling and you can see here that
 in this pre-update state it's just a little bit choppy and not all that smooth.
 So I'm going to go grab the update and we'll see what it adds.
 So I got the new software update here.
 And the first thing you'll notice, and one of the things I actually noticed at first
 is that this carousel is actually a little bit slower now and it's easier to stop on
 things especially when you're going really fast.
 But as we showed before, I can now stop on, there we go, Justin Bieber and remove him
 from the carousel so no one knows that I was reading that book.
 I can also go into the browser and get a little bit faster browsing or scrolling speeds.
 Still a little bit slow here on the verge but admittedly it's a heavy site with both
 text and pictures.
 Definitely am seeing improvement here on the New York Times, faster in terms of pinching
 to zoom and scrolling.
 Probably not as smooth as the iPad, I don't have one to compare it to side by side, just
 doesn't feel like it has that same snap.
 I am seeing though just a better touch responsiveness as you can see just basic taps are working,
 something I've had a problem with in the past.
 Also it seems that page turns in magazines seem a little bit faster.
 I should probably remove this from the carousel too, don't want anyone knowing I'm reading
 this.
 Still a little bit slow with these sort of graphic heavy pages but I think it's a little
 bit better.
 So overall it's a pretty good update here for the Kindle Fire, it unfortunately doesn't
 fix my biggest issue with the device which is the power button on the bottom.