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Old 06-11-2014, 09:04 PM   #1
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Web browsers for K4?

Are there any web browsers for a K4?
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Old 06-11-2014, 09:05 PM   #2
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I'm assuming the ones for K5s won't work.
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Old 06-12-2014, 11:42 AM   #3
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Old 06-12-2014, 11:44 AM   #4
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Doesn't a K4 have a web browser built in?
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Old 06-12-2014, 11:48 AM   #5
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Yes but it could use an update.
such as multi tab support...
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Old 06-12-2014, 12:22 PM   #6
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E-Book readers aren't the platform of choice for running sophisticated browsers. Main reason is the shortage of RAM, I think. On a K4 the lack of a touchscreen is another issue. 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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Old 06-12-2014, 05:59 PM   #7
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I agree.
Instead I purchased 3, 7 inch, quad core tablets.
Shipped one (to twobob), had one warranty return (from twobob).

But they are much better at what they do, than trying to turn a grayscale Kindle into a tablet.
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Old 06-12-2014, 08:02 PM   #8
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yeah. have to second that. and hell, I'll try and jam anything on anything.

In the world of lost causes the kindle 4 is about as far from ideal as ideal gets when it comes to hardware offered.

as far as I know there isnt even a k4 terminal. that speaks volumes.
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I think it would make a perfect wall clock or weather display. Except you go really to extremes and use it to read ebooks. But then you wouldn't hang around in this board, right? :-)
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Old 06-14-2014, 08:45 AM   #11
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I've never owned a K4, but even on a K3 - which had an almost usable keyboard - using a browser wasn't much fun.
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.
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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.
But there is a lack of things worth protesting these days.
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