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Push to Kindle now preserves the relationship between an image and its caption on many articles. This will result in images and their captions being slightly indented in the Kindle display, to separate them from the surrounding text. 

See the image below for a before and after example.

This should be especially useful for longer caption texts which could often be mistaken for being part of the article's main text instead.

You will not notice this change in all articles containing images and captions, only those that mark images and captions with <figure> and <figcaption> in the HTML. Very early version of the Kindle software didn't support these tags, so we ignored them. But newer versions do, so we're now preserving them to improve how images and captions are displayed.

You will also notice that disabling images with the toggle will now remove the caption too on articles where captions have been marked up in this way.

Success and failure status now displayed in tab icon

Another change is that you will now see a green tick in the browser tab icon when Push to Kindle successfully sends an article, and a red cross when it doesn't. The regular icon will be displayed if sending hasn't been attempted.

The tab icon should update even if you move to another tab after clicking 'Send'. If you often end up with a lot of Push to Kindle tabs, this should help you figure out at a glance which ones you can safely close. 

As always, feel free to give us feedback on any of these changes. Especially if you experience any trouble with them.

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FiveFilters.org

Oh, we should have mentioned that these changes have been applied automatically. No update necessary. The image caption improvement however only works on some sites, so you might not see it if immediately.

Ryan Lundy

Akin to these changes, could a feature be added to detect block quotes in an article and format them differently? Here's an example I found: https://longreads.com/2019/10/22/the-final-five-percent/ The quotes are in blockquote elements, but when the article is synced with Push to Kindle, they look just like ordinary article text, which can make for confusing reading. Even removing the block quotes entirely would make for a better reading experience than including them as ordinary text.