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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is part four of the video review of the Amazon Kindle I want to show you what it's like to look at a newspaper on the Kindle here we have the Wall Street Journal I'm doing the 14 day trial and in order to not get charged after the 14 days I have to cancel it before the 14 days ends so this is what it looks like when I am on page 1 of The Wall Street Journal there are no pictures what I like to do is go to the section list now reading a newspaper on the Kindle is a completely different experience obviously than having a real newspaper you don't get the you don't get the pictures you don't get to see a cover page and then you can flip across to the next page to see the continuation of a story it's basically like a compilation of articles which is okay because when you boil it down reading a newspaper is just reading an article after another article so let's say I want to go to the marketing section and it tells me there are 18 articles right now and here are the front page articles for marketing and other articles listed on other pages so I'm going to click on the first article here and it'll just take me to a page that lists all of the text of the article and just like as if I were reading a book I can click next page and read the whole thing so it's going to take a lot of get a lot of getting used to reading The Wall Street Journal on the Kindle I'm not sure I'm going to make it a habit but the option is there if you want if you want to do that now I'm going to go back to the home screen and show you some features that Amazon is experimenting with I'm going to click menu here and go to the experimental choice at the bottom here we have three things basic web esque Kindle now now interesting name I know and play music the basic web is an attempt to render web pages on the Kindle and it doesn't atrocious shop I'm not even going to show it to you just try to imagine a monochrome screen with 800 by 600 resolution try to display a web page it doesn't look pretty it's readable it's definitely readable if you're out and about you need to see a web page but it's not a good experience then again the Kindle is not a web browser it really isn't then we have this thing called ask Kindle now now you can type a question and apparently real people will research your question on the web and send up to three answers to your Kindle usually within 10 minutes this actually works it's really interesting I sent in a question I said what are the side effects of the prescription drug Allegra it's a drug for allergies and about 10 minutes later I get a response with it looks like somebody wrote an article they obviously didn't I don't know how it actually works I'm assuming it's just some kind of automatic web query and then you have play music you can put in an SD card and listen to music while you read on your Kindle and that's it for part 4