All Kindles that get the 5.18.1 replace additionally achieve entry to new e-book summaries for “1000’s of bestselling English language Kindle books,” aiming to make it simpler to choose up a brand new e-book in an ongoing collection.

When a recap is accessible, it is going to be accessible out of your Kindle’s house web page, or by opening the e-book and choosing “Recaps In This Collection” from the menu. Opening a recap will present you a spoiler warning earlier than you faucet via. Primarily based on the handful of recaps I might discover and skim, there is a fairly good probability these summaries are principally AI-generated, however Amazon’s launch notes and the Kindle interface do not say somehow.

The 5.18.1 replace additionally contains the standard non-specific “efficiency enhancements, bug fixes, and different basic enhancements” for all fashions. That is the primary replace to get the Colorsoft and the opposite Kindles operating on the identical software program model—prior to now, the opposite Kindles have been all on model 5.17, and the Colorsoft ran a model of 5.18 that wasn’t accessible for handbook obtain from Amazon’s software program replace web page.