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Originally Posted by hawhill
I've never owned a K4, but even on a K3 - which had an almost usable keyboard - using a browser wasn't much fun.
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Part of the problem here could be the word "browser." The K3 doesn't really have a browser, in the sense that you can follow links. Doing so would be an exercise in frustration.
I use the K3 browser, but only for simply formatted text-heavy news and information sites. And I've never typed much more than the occasional tinyurl.com link into the keyboard.
The basic method is to:
1. Find text sites you are interested in. Ideas are scattered in the
Links Every Kindle Owner Should Have Thread. Most have to be put through the
www.readingthenet.com process to create a link with a more readable font.
2. Put the links in a .txt document and email it to your free kindle.com address and/or put them in a personal sites.google.com page. With the latter strategy, you can go to tinyurl.com to get your sites.google.com link reduced to where it can, on a one-time basis, be typed into the device. On a one-time basis, this could even be managed on the K4.
3. Once in a site you like, on the Kindle, use the menu option to create a favorite. Hopefully you don't need to rename that favorite, but you can.
4. Everything has to be set up with the help of a PC, but once set, especially if you have 3G, you now have the world's news available anytime, anywhere this side of the central Sahara, with no international borders or monthly fee.
I think the misunderstanding with the eInk browser is that is it, just like the rest of the Kindle, best suited to reading long texts. It isn't worse than a PC browser, it's for something different.