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Sharing comments via social networks
The share feature enables you to share books, Kindle highlights and comments with
friends via 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. To
access the sharing feature when you select text, 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 Search and More. Tap the More button to share the selected
text.
Using your Kindle with your computer
Your Kindle uses Amazon Whispernet to deliver books, periodicals, personal documents,
Kindle Singles (novella-length narratives), blogs and active content to your Kindle without
the need for a computer.
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'll see a directory or folder called
"documents". You can add Kindle-compatible files to this directory, 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 Browser. 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:
To zoom in on a web page or image, place two fingers close together on the centre of the
screen and move them apart. To zoom out, place two fingers a little apart on the screen
and pinch them together.
Tap links to open a web page.
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