Amazon D00701, D00511 manual Accessing the Web, Using Basic Web

CHAPTER 6:

Accessing the Web

Your Kindle comes with an Experimental application called Basic Web, which is

a Web browser optimized to read Web sites that are primarily text-based. It supports JavaScript, SSL and cookies but does not support media plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.) or Java applets. You can also change your Kindle screen orientation from portrait to landscape to see the entire width of a web page.

6.1 Using Basic Web

There are four ways to open the Basic Web browser. The two main ways are to select “Basic Web” from the Experimental screen or to follow a link from within your reading material. Many of the blogs that you subscribe to from the Kindle Store have links to Web sites. Selecting these links will open Basic Web and take you to the URL associated with the link. If you select “Basic Web” from the Experimental page, you will open to the last Web site you were viewing in your browser.

One other way of accessing the Basic Web browser is to type in a word anytime from Home or any book, blog, newspaper, or magazine you happen to be reading. When you begin typing, a search box will pop up at the bottom of the screen, and you can move the 5-way controller to the right and select “google” or “wikipedia” from the menu to search those sites directly for the word you typed.

You can also enter a URL in the Search bubble from the Home page. Type the URL and move the 5-way to select “go to” and then press the 5-way.

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