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Chapter 6 · 87KINDLE USER’S GUIDE 2

EDITION

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.

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

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.

ENTERING A URL

To enter the URL for a Web site, navigate to the top of the screen or press Menu and

select “Enter URL” from the menu options. Begin typing when the cursor is located

in the URL text ﬁeld. When you are done typing, press the 5-way controller to view

that Web site.

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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