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
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
You can also enter a URL in a Search bubble from the Home page. Type the URL and move the
ENTERING A URL
To enter the URL for a Web site, press Menu and select “Enter URL” from the menu options. Begin typing when the cursor is in the URL text field. When you are done typing, press the
The URL text field retains the last URL you entered in case you want to quickly edit the same address and submit it again. If you want to enter a secure site with an “https” address, use the backspace key to delete the automatically entered “://” and type the address you want.
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