Chapter 6: Accessing The Web; Using Basic Web - Amazon Kindle User Manual

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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