Happily, it was just my dog, scratching at the door to be let out for number ones. It was a dark and stormy night when I was awoken by a scratching, as though the corpse I had recently buried in my basement had come back to life and was clawing its way free. No, I'm not talking about getting ripped off by Diablo 3 scammers - this was much worse. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting. Such advertising cookies may enable such third-party vendors to serve ads to our readers. Some third-party vendors such Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. Windwalker Media, Kindle Nation Daily and its subdomains are published independently by Stephen Windwalker and Windwalker Media and is not endorsed by, Inc. This content is provided 'as is' and is subject to change or removal at any time. Certain content that appears on this website is provided by Amazon Services LLC. Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. While all titles recommended on this website must meet our standards for price, quality, and appropriate content, some publishers or rightsholders compensate us for prominent placement on the site or in our email bulletins.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, Windwalker Media, Kindle Nation Daily and its subdomains are not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. You may find that with Silk Reading View, your Fire will quickly become a preferred device for reading articles online. Note that while the glasses icon may first appear on a green background that looks similar to the button you’ll find on the HD Fires, in all the tests I’ve tried so far the green background quickly fades, leaving the tiny glasses icon on the tab with no particular indication that it’s a button or link. On a non-HD Fire, you’ll find the same ‘glasses’ icon, but it will appear on the tab where the name of the site you’re visiting is shown. On Fire HD models, you’ll find a green Reading View button at the far right-hand side of the URL bar, just like it is in the image. Where it is available, you’ll see an icon like the one shown below: Reading View is something that’s designed for use with sites that have a lot of article content, so you may not find it’s available on sites like Facebook or YouTube, where it doesn’t really make sense to provide a Reading View option. All you see is the article content, and since Reading View opens that content in a new tab, returning to the original site is as easy as closing the Reading View tab. You may already be familiar with the “Print View” buttons you can find on many websites these days, and Silk Reading View works the same way: click on the Reading View button or link to load the article you’re currently viewing in a separate tab, with all the surrounding sidebar, menu and advertising content removed. Silk Browser Reading View Lets You See Web Articles In A Clean, Text-Only Format I’ve just discovered that Amazon has provided a solution to this problem: Silk Browser Reading View! Of course I know I can zoom in to enlarge the text, but then navigation becomes a chore because I must swipe around to bring the scrollbars or “Next Page” links back into view. Having so much mixed content in such a small space also makes it difficult for me to focus on the text I’m trying to read. When all of that content is crammed into a web page that’s been shrunk down to a size that fits on my Fire’s 7″ screen, it’s hard to navigate around the page without accidentally tapping on a link. This is because many of the websites I frequent are pretty ‘busy’: their pages are filled with images, ads, and heavily formatted text in various blocks. Also note, Reading View is only available on sites where text-only view has been enabled by the site owner/administrator, and only when viewing an individual article/post (as opposed to viewing a site’s homepage).Īs much as I love my Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD devices, one of the features I’ve rarely used on them is the Silk web browser. **11/11/13 UPDATE** Note that the Silk Browser Reading View feature described in this post is available in the first-generation, non-HD Fire, but is only accessible through the Silk browser Options menu on that device. Access this menu by tapping near the bottom of the screen with the Silk browser open. BOOKS ELIGIBLE FOR KINDLE PRIME LENDING.

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