User`s guide

Kindle User’s Guide

Chapter 4

Getting More From Your Kindle

Sharing comments via social networks

The share feature enables you to share books, Kindle highlights and comments with friends

via social networks, including Goodreads on Kindle. To link your Kindle with 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 and blogs 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.