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hey guys it's 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 cuz 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 it's 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 it just doesn't feel like 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 so 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