The browser is actually required to complete Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail registration, as well as to facilitate a proxied wifi connection. In each case, it has to render a bit of HTML and let you type in username/password, etc.
Even that does not always work very well; the keyboard tends to pop up over the field you need to type into. It would be nice if they improved the browser, a little bit of effort could go a long way considering how bad it is now, even compared to Nook classic.
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