Sharing Comments Via Social Networks; Using Your Kindle With Your Computer; Using The Experimental Web Browser - Amazon Kindle Touch User Manual

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Chapter 4
Getting More From Your
Kindle Touch

Sharing comments via social networks

You can share your Kindle highlights with friends using social networks. To link your
Kindle to your social network accounts and enable sharing, from the Home screen tap the
Menu button and select Settings. On the Settings page, tap Reading Options, then tap
Social Networks.
Once you have set up the sharing feature, from within a book you can select Share from
the secondary toolbar and enter a message and share it with your social network. You can
also access the sharing feature when you select text. To do this, press and hold on text,
then drag your finger across the screen to select it. If you select a sentence or multiple
words, a dialog box will appear with an option to Share. If you select a single word, a
definition of the word displays and options include Show Full Definition, Highlight and
More. Tap More to access sharing. This feature is not available in all countries.

Using your Kindle with your computer

Your Kindle uses Amazon Whispernet to deliver books, periodicals, personal documents,
Kindle Singles, blogs, active content and audiobooks (the latter via Wi-Fi only) to your
Kindle without the need for a computer.
Some Kindle content, such as MP3 files, must be downloaded to your computer and
transferred to your Kindle using the supplied USB cable. If Wi-Fi is not available at your
location, you can use the same procedure for audiobooks.
When you first connect the Kindle to a computer's USB port, it will appear as an external
storage drive or volume on the computer's desktop. You will see a directory or folder
called "documents." The "audible" directory is for your audiobooks, and "music" is for your
MP3 files. You can add Kindle-compatible files to these directories, and you can copy,
move or delete the files that are already there. See the Kindle Support website
(www.kindle.com/support) for more information on supported file types.
Your Kindle is not usable as a reading device while in USB drive mode. To read a book
whilst charging the battery, you must eject the Kindle from your computer's desktop.

Using the Experimental Web Browser

Your Kindle includes an experimental web browser that enables you to surf the web and
view most Amazon web pages. Web Browser supports JavaScript, SSL and cookies, but
does not support media plug-ins. You must have a Wi-Fi connection to access most
websites.
To launch Web Browser, from the Home screen tap the Menu button and select
Experimental. Select the Web Browser option. The first time you access this page, you will
find a list of default bookmarks for commonly used sites. You can access these
bookmarks later by selecting Bookmarks from the Web Browser menu.
To enter a URL, tap the search field at the top of the screen. Use the onscreen keyboard
to enter the web address. A .co.uk key is added to the keyboard when you are entering
URLs. The address field will retain the last URL you entered.
The following tips will help you get the most out of the Kindle Web Browser: