Browsing the net on your Kindle
The Kindles have an integrated browser. Although it is pretty basic, it can be quite handy. The best way to browse a website is using the mobile version of it. Many websites have versions that are especially formatted for mobile access. They will usually have m. or mobile. in the URL
The easiest way to check if a website has a mobile version is to Google it. For example, if you Google “mobile Los Angeles Times” you will see
If you google “mobile Answers website” you wil get
And so on
The Amazon Kindl DX out of the box – Photos –
Your Kindle DX will arrive well protected in a hard cardboard box
Open the Kindl DX box by pulling the tab on the side
Inside the cardboard box there is yet another box in which the Kindle DX is packed
Open the black box and you will finally see your Kindl DX
When you plug it in you will see this image
And then the user guide screen will show
A view of the DX keyboard
Reading manga on the Kindl DX
A view of the menu
Amazon's Kindle DX has a basic web browser. Here it is showing a page from the Wikipedia website
This is a photo of how the Kindle DX can show PDF documents
Kindle 2 vs Kindle DX. You can see the huge difference in the screen size.
How to download PDFs with your Kindle DX ereader
The Kindle DX ereader comes with a basic web browser. You can use this browser to download PDFs directly to your kindle installing a small tool. With this you can download PDFs by simply clicking on a link to a PDF file.
So… how do you do it?
- Download this file
- Put this installer .bin file at the root of your kindle DX
- Update kindle from menu -> settings
If you want to remove this trick then:
- Download this other file
- Put the uninstaller .bin file at the root of your Kindle DX ereader
- Update your kindle.
This is the message you will see if you click on a a hyperlink to a PDF file on your Kindle DX browser
This is the message you will see after installing the file to your Kindle DX