Ready to crack open a Kindle book in your Web browser? Let’s get started.

Opening the Amazon Cloud Reader in a web browser

First, launch your favorite web browser, then visit the Amazon Cloud Reader site at http://read.amazon.com.

Next, sign in to your Amazon account—or, if you don’t have a free Amazon account yet, click “Create a new account” to sign up for one.

Related: How to borrow a Kindle book from Amazon

Once you’re signed into your Amazon account, a window will appear with instructions for setting up your browser to store your Kindle books for “offline” reading, when you don’t have an Internet connection. Again, click the big yellow button and follow the instructions (they vary slightly depending on your browser).

If you’ve already bought Kindle books before, you’ll see them in a grid in your browser; just click a book cover, and presto—you’re reading.

How to buy Kindle books in the Amazon Cloud Reader

No Kindle books yet? Click the “Kindle Store” Button in the top-right corner of the page to begin shopping. Once you’ve chosen a Kindle book to buy, make sure to select your Kindle Cloud Reader in the “Deliver to” drop-down menu, which sits right below the “Buy” button.

Related: How to buy Kindle books on an iPhone or iPad

Don’t worry, you can always send your purchased book to a new device under your account by selecting “Manage Your Content and Devices” under the “Your Amazon” menu near the top of the page.

Managing your Kindle bookmarks, font sizes and background colors

As with the physical Kindle e-reader, the online Cloud Reader lets you add bookmarks as you read, and you can change the font size or background color of the pages.

The Cloud Reader will automatically download the most recently opened books in your Kindle library for when you don’t have an Internet connection (provided you went ahead and enabled the Cloud Reader’s offline reading mode). You can also manually select, or “pin,” a book for offline storage; to do so, just right-click on its cover in the Cloud Reader library.

Related: How to reset the furthest page read of a Kindle book you’re reading

Done reading? Then just close the browser window. And yes—you can always read your Kindle books from another browser or even a different PC or Mac once you log into your account.

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You can grab the latest version of Google’s Chrome browser from the App Store—and no, there’s still no way to make Chrome the default browser on your iPhone or iPad. That’s a shame, because Chrome’s nifty new gestures are making me rethink my allegiance to Safari.

Read on for five gotta-know Chrome gestures, starting with…

1. Refresh a page

If you want to reload a page in Safari for iOS, you must tap the tiny “reload” button in the top corner of the screen. In Chrome, refreshing a page is a whole lot easier: just tug the page down.

Doing so reveals a “reload” icon at the top of the screen; just wait for the icon to highlight itself, release the page, and … refresh complete!

Want to switch tabs in the new Chrome for iOS? Just swipe the address bar.

2. Add a new tab

Opening a new tab in Safari demands a couple of taps: once on the Tabs button in the bottom corner of the page, and again on the “plus” button.

In Chrome, adding a new tab takes just a single gesture (well, maybe a gesture and a half). Tug down on the page again, swipe left to select the “+” icon to the left of the refresh icon, then release.

3. Close a tab

Again, just tug down on the page, except this time swipe right to select the “x” icon. Done and done.

4. Switch tabs

The standard way to switch tabs in Chrome is to tap the little square button to the right of the address bar; doing so reveals all your open tabs, and you can tap one to open it or swipe it away to close it.

All well and good, but there’s an easier way to switch tabs: just swipe one way or another on the address bar. When you do, you’ll switch to the next open tab; keep swiping to cycle through them all.

5. Go back (or forward) a page

With its latest version, Chrome catches up to a feature Safari’s had for some time now: the ability to swipe to go back a page. Just swipe in from the left edge of the screen to go back, or swipe in from the right side to go forward.

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In fact, you can set any of the four major browsers—Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari—to load as many “home” or “start” pages as you like, all in separate browser tabs.

Here’s how…

Chrome will let you add as many “startup” tabs as you like.

For Google Chrome:

• Click the menu button in the top-right corner of the Chrome interface (it’s the one marked with three short horizontal lines), then select Settings.
• Find the “On startup” section, click the “Open a specific page or set of pages” button, then click the “Set pages” link.
• Fill in the blank next to “Add a new page” with a web address (URL) you want Chrome to open when it first starts up, then click OK. Want more pages to open? Just keep adding URLs one at a time, or click the “Use current pages” button to automatically add the browser tabs you already have open.
• Done adding tabs? Click the OK button once more, then quit Chrome and start it up again.
• Presto! All the pages you just entered should start loading automatically.

Just open the tabs you want Firefox to load as it starts and click the “Use Current Pages” button.

For Firefox:

• Launch a new Firefox window, then open tabs for all the pages you’d like Firefox to open when it first starts up.
• Click the Firefox menu and select Preferences (on a Mac), or click Tools, Options (on a PC), then click the General tab.
• Make sure the “When Firefox starts” option is set to “Show my home page,” then click the “Use Current Pages” button under the blank labeled “Home Page.”
• Close the settings window, quick Firefox, open it again … and there you go.

Keep adding URLs to the “home page” field to load multiple tabs when Internet Explorer starts.

For Internet Explorer:

• Open the Tools menu (it’s the gear-shaped button in the upper-right corner of the browser interface), select Internet Options, then click the General tab.
• You should see a big “Home page” form at the top of the Internet Options window. Start entering the web addresses you want to load as tabs when you start Internet Explorer, or click the “Use current” button if you’ve already got the tabs open in a browser window.
• In the “Startup” section, make sure “Start with home page” is selected.
• Click the Apply button, quit IE, launch it again, then sit back and watch as your tabs load.

You’ll need to create and then select a bookmarks folder to make Safari load multiple tabs when it launches.

For Safari:

• Open a new Safari window, then create tabs for all the pages you’d like to load when the browser first starts.
• Open the Bookmarks menu, then select “Add Bookmarks for These (x) Tabs.” You’ll need to pick a name for your the bookmarks folder you’re about to create; you might want to choose “Startup tabs,” or another easy-to-remember name.
• Next, open the Safari menu and select Preferences, then click the General tab.
• Find the “Safari opens with” setting and select “A new window” from the pull-down menu.
• Then, for the “New windows open with” setting, select “Choose tabs folder,” then select the folder you just created in the window that appears.
• Quit Safari, launch it again, and you’ll see your startup tabs waiting for you.

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Version 30 of Chrome (or version 30.0.1599.82, if you want to get specific about it) is live in Google’s Play store, and if you have Chrome installed on your handset, it’s probably already updated itself.

The new Chrome adds a slew of updates and bug fixes, but it’s most notable for three new gestures that’ll come in handy when you’re trying to view your open browser tabs, cycle between tabs, or dip into the main Chrome menu.

Swipe left or right on the Chrome browser bar to switch between tabs.

Read on for the three new touch gestures in Chrome 30, starting with…

1. Swipe left or right on the browser bar

See the top bar on the Chrome browser window—the one with the address bar?

Swipe it left or right with your fingertip to switch to the next open browser tab.

Note: This new Chrome gesture replaces an older one that let you switch tabs by swipe left or right anywhere on the side of the screen, not just on the top browser bar. Some Chrome users are pretty upset by the change (I was a fan of the old gesture too), but it’s still better than tapping the tiny “tabs” button next to the address bar.

2. Pull down on the browser bar

Instead of swiping the browser bar, trying tapping and pulling down on the bar.

When you do, all your open browser tabs will spill onto the screen, like cards in a deck (as in the image at the very top of this article).

Tap a tab to open it, or (this is neat) close a tab by tapping and swiping it to the side.

Tap, hold and drag to open the Chrome menu, slide your finger down to the item you want, then release.

3. Tap and hold the menu button

Want to check your browser history, view open Chrome tabs on your desktop PC, tweak your Chrome settings, or access another item in the main Chrome menu? Now you can do so with a minimum of tapping.

Just tap and hold the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner of the screen, then drag down to open the menu.

Keep dragging till you reach the menu item you want, then release—no extra tapping required.

Bonus tip

Want to search Google for an image you found on the web? Just tap and hold the image, then tap “Search Google for this image” on the pop-up menu (it’s at the very bottom).

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All you need is a Google account and the mobile version of Google’s impressive Chrome web browser, which is now available (and free) for Android handsets.

Update [6/28/12]: The mobile version of Chrome—including the ability to sync your open browser tabs—is now available for iPhone and iPad, as well.

Just tap a button (it’s the one with the arrows in the bottom-right corner) to see a list of all your synced Chrome tabs.

Ready to take your desktop browser tabs on the road? Here’s how:

• First, you’ll need to install Google’s Chrome browser on both your desktop and your Android phone. You can download the desktop version of Chrome here, then grab the mobile Chrome over here.
• Next, you must sync the desktop version of Chrome with your Google account. (Don’t have one? You can sign up for free here.) On your desktop, launch Chrome, click the little wrench in the top-right corner of the browser, select “Sign in to Chrome,” click in the “Sign in to Chrome” button near the top of the following page, then enter your Google email address and password.
• Once that’s done, a pop-up window will ask if you’d like to sync all your Chrome data—including Chrome apps, bookmarks, themes, and other settings—with Google. I recommend you go ahead and click the “Sync everything” button, but you can also click the “Advanced settings” link to pick and choose which items you’d like to sync—and which you’d rather not.
• All set? Time to fire up Chrome on your Android phone. Once you do, you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Google account—and once that’s all set, your desktop Chrome browser and Chrome on your phone will be linked.
• Now, open a new browser tab on the desktop Chrome—say, the New York Times. Done? Then pull out your Android phone, open mobile Chrome, and tap the tab with the syncing arrows in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
• You should now see a list of “other devices,” such as the desktop version of Chrome, that are syncing with Chrome on your phone—and under the heading for your desktop PC, you should see a tab for the New York Times. Tap it, and voilà—you just loaded a browser tab from your desktop to Chrome on your Android phone.

Bonus tip

 
Don’t see the browser tab button at the bottom of mobile Chrome screen? If not, you can tap the “New Tab” button to pull it up again, or tap the menu button (it looks like a column of three dots) and select “Other devices” from the drop-down menu.

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Now, one way to deal with Google’s browser cookie is to delete it, or tell Google that you don’t want it tracking your browsing habits.

Then again, you could decide that you actually want Google’s online advertising system to have a better idea of who you are, and what you’re interested in—and then, perhaps, you might actually stand a chance of seeing ads you’d actually consider clicking.

If you’re game, the first step is to visit Google’s Ad Preferences Manager. Click here, then click the “Ads on the web” link in the left-hand column.

Scroll down to the “Your categories” section and you’ll see the various types of things that Google thinks you’re most interested in, all based on your browsing habits.

You can tell Google which categories of online ads you'd be most interested in, or delete any wild guesses it made.

In my case, “Movies” and “Film Festivals” came up big—good guess—along with “Smart Phones” (check), “Sony PlayStation” (very true, given that I’ve been circling the new PlayStation Vita game console), “Gadgets and Portable Electronics” (yes indeed), and, uh … “Anime & Manga” (not so much).

Even more interesting is the next section: Google’s guess on your demographic info. As it turns out, Google nailed it: I am, indeed, male, and I’m between 35 and 44 years old (more on the older end of the scale, to be honest).

So, see anything you want to change? If so, just click the “delete or edit” link. On the following page, Google lets you knock out any categories that aren’t working for you; for example, I went ahead and nixed “Anime & Manga” from my profile. You can also add some categories that Google missed, anything from “Arts and Entertainment” to “Travel.”

Did Google get your age and gender wrong? You can change those settings, as well, in addition to specifying your country and/or state. (Google’s demographic profiling won’t venture into matters of geography unless you tell it to, by the way, and it doesn’t deal with race at all.)

Remember, though, that cookies are browser-specific, meaning that Google may have a different picture of you from one browser to another. The Google ad cookie in Safari, for example, thinks I’m between 24 and 34; the cookie in my Chrome browser, meanwhile, thinks (quite accurately) I’m a bit older. Bad Chrome!

Last but not least, there’s a final setting that I covered in a previous post: the option to opt-out of “personalized” Google ads altogether. Click the “Opt-out” button, and Google will stop tracking your browser with its ad cookie.

Have more questions about Google and its “personalized” ads? And which would you prefer: online ads that are tailored (more or less, anyway) to your interests, or random ads with the assurance that Google isn’t keeping tabs on your browsing habits?

Let us know in the comments below.

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1. Google Mail Checker
If you’re a Google user, chances are you’ve also got a Gmail account, and this handy Chrome extension sits at the top of your browser and pings you whenever a new message hits your Gmail inbox. Got a Yahoo or Hotmail account instead? Try X-notifier, a mail-checking extension that’ll appeal to more advanced users.

2. IM+
This free instant messaging app works with services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ, and it’ll sound an alert whenever one of your buddies wants to chat. The app will also remember your IM logins, settings, and user preferences once you create a free IM+ account.

Amazon's Windowshop app for Chrome delivers an iPad-like browsing experience.

3. Amazon Windowshop
It’s the same, gorgeous-looking browsing experience as on Amazon’s Windowshop app for the iPad, except this time it’s been optimized for scrolling and clicking in Chrome.

4. Offline Google Mail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar
Worried about losing access to your Gmail and online Google documents if your Internet service konks out? This trio of Google apps will automatically sync your online messages, calendars, and recently-updated documents with your desktop for offline access, even if your modem goes haywire.

5. Facebook Notifications
You’ll know the moment someone “likes” one of your links or sends you a Facebook chat request with this Chrome extension on the case.

6. Evernote and Evernote Web Clipper
One of my favorite online and mobile note-taking apps also excels at “clipping” interesting content on the web. Just add Evernote’s Web Clipper extension to Chrome, and click the green button in the Chrome task bar whenever you stumble upon anything clip-worthy.

Nope, this isn't the usual, online look of The New York Times.

7. The New York Times
Nope, we’re not just talking a bookmark for the New York Times website. Instead, the New York Times app for Chrome delivers stories from the Gray Lady in a classic, newspaper-style format, complete with a choice of more than a dozen layouts.

8. Angry Birds
Yep, we’re talking the complete game here, all in your Chrome browser—and yes, it’s free.

9. Twitter Notifier
Get a steady, real-time stream (or torrent, depending on how many people you’re following) of alerts from your Twitter pals in the corner of your screen.

10. Google Voice
Signed up for a Google Voice phone number? If so, the Google Voice extension for Chrome will ding whenever you get a voice mail, and it’ll even give you a transcribed preview of your message directly from the Chrome task bar.

Got more apps and extensions you’d like to recommend to new Chrome users? Post ’em below!

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You can install web applications in Chrome for everything from Angry Birds and Gmail to Twitter and the New York Times.

And if you have Google Chrome running on more than one system—say, on your desktop PC and on a MacBook Pro—you can set each copy of the Chrome browser to sync its apps with the others, automatically. (Your Chrome browsers will also sync their bookmarks, user information, and other settings with each other, once you’ve signed in using your Google account.)

The Chrome Web Store boasts hundreds of apps for the Chrome browser, many of them free.

Installing an app in Chrome takes seconds, and just a few clicks.

Here’s how to get started…

1. If you don’t already have Chrome installed on your PC or Mac, you can download a free copy right here. Don’t worry if you already have Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox installed on your system; they’ll all play nice with Chrome, even if they’re running at the same time.
2. Launch Chrome, and open a new tab by pressing the Home button next to the address bar, or by clicking the little “+” icon.
3. The so-called “New Tab” page is where all your installed apps will sit, and it also boasts a bookmark for the Chrome Web Store. Go ahead and click the Web Store icon.
4. So, welcome to the (recently revamped) Web Store, which looks and feels an awful lot like the App Store for the iPhone and iPad. You won’t find any smartphone apps here, though; instead, all these apps are for Chrome.
5. You’ll need to sign in with your Google ID before installing an app; you can go ahead and do so at the top-right corner of the page. If you don’t have a Google ID, you can always register for free.
6. Let’s start with something productive—say, Evernote, the free note-taking app that syncs with iPhones, iPads, and Android phones. Just find Evernote using the search box, click the search result to open the app detail page, and click the blue “Add to Chrome” button. A pop-up window will appear, asking “Install Evernote Web”? Click Install.
7. Within seconds, you should see the Evernote app install itself onto your New Tab page in Chrome. Click its green icon to run the app.
8. OK, time for some fun. Go back to the Chrome Web Store, and search for—you guessed it—Angry Birds. Install it (yes, it’s free), launch the app, and presto—it’s Angry Birds, running in Chrome.
9. While some Chrome apps may seem like glorified bookmarks, others are capable of more advanced features, including the ability to run even when you don’t have an Internet connection. Angry Birds, for example, will work offline, as will the New York Times and other Chrome apps.
10. Now, go back to the New Tab page where your apps sit—and this time, rather than launching an app, try clicking and dragging one of the icons. The latest version of Chrome lets you rearrange your apps just about any way you want, similar to tapping and dragging apps on the iPhone home screen.
11. Want to move an app to a new tab? Click it, and drag it down toward the bottom of the screen, where you’ll find a pair of existing tabs: “Most visited” (which shows thumbnails of the websites you visit most often) and “Apps.” You’ll also see a third, unnamed tab slide open to the right; go ahead and drag an app into that third tap to move it into a new home screen—perfect for organizing your apps by, say, work and play.
12. Want to delete a Chrome app? Click it and drag it onto the trash can in the bottom-right corner of the browser, or just right-click it and select “Remove from Chrome.”

Have more questions about Chrome, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite browsers? Let me know!

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The good news, though, is that Google just re-enabled the ability to access Google Docs when you’re offline—perfect for opening your cloud-based documents even when you don’t have an Internet connection, or when something goes screwy at Google HQ.

You can't edit files in Google Docs' offline mode, but at least you can view them.

The Google Docs offline mode isn’t perfect. For example: the current version of Google Docs only lets you view your document—no editing allowed.

That said, you could always copy and paste your documents into a text editor for offline editing, then upload the edited version as a new document once you’re back online. (For what it’s worth, Google says it’s “working hard” to make offline editing of Google Docs files “a reality.”)

Also, Google Docs’ offline mode only works in Google’s Chrome browser, which you can download here. Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox users are out of luck, although there’s no rule against having multiple browsers installed on your system. (Indeed, I usually have both Safari and Chrome running on my Mac at the same time.)

Once you enable "offline" mode, Google Docs will continually sync your stored files onto your desktop browser.

Last but not least, only word documents and spreadsheets are available in offline mode; presentations and other types of files stored in your Google Docs account are not (or not yet, anyway).

So yes, the Google Docs offline mode definitely has its limitations, but being able to at least view your Google Docs files offline is better then nothing—especially when something goes wrong with your home router, or if Google’s servers get hit by a bolt of lightning.

Ready to give offline Google Docs a try? Let’s get started.

1. Launch the Chrome web browser, visit the Chrome Web store and install the free Google Docs plugin.
2. Go to the Chrome home page and click the new Google Docs icon in the Apps section, or simply type “docs.google.com” in the Chrome browser address bar.
3. You should now see the standard Google Docs start page, complete with a column of folders on the left and a list of all your documents on the right. Just above the main document list, you’ll see a tab with a gear icon; go ahead and click it.
4. Select the option at the very bottom of the pull-down menu, labeled “Set up Docs offline.”
5. Next, a pop-up window will appear, asking you if you want to allow Google Docs to store your documents offline, along with a warning: namely, that enabling offline documents isn’t the best idea if you’re using a PC or Mac that’s shared by others. Ready to proceed? Then click the blue “Allow offline docs” button.
6. Now, you’ll return to the main Google Docs page, where you’ll see a notification window explaining that your recently opened documents and spreadsheets are currently being synced for offline use. Go ahead and click the “X” in the corner of the bubble to close it.
7. Want to see which documents are being synced? Click the Settings menu (the button with the gear icon) and select “View offline docs.” Stored documents will also have a little gray “Offline” label next to their names on the main Google Docs page.

That’s it! Now your recently opened Google Docs files will be automatically synced for offline viewing. The next time you want to view (although again, not edit) your Google Docs files in offline mode, just type “docs.google.com” into Chrome’s address bar, then click on the file you’d like to view.

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Never fear, I’ll dive into the basic about Google Docs in a future post. (If you’re feeling the itch to give it a try, just click here to get started—and remember, if you have a Gmail account, you already have a Google Docs account.)

For now, though, I thought I’d let you in on five clever tricks that Google Docs has up its sleeves.

1. Edit documents in full-screen mode
Yes, composing a Word document in your web browser can be an odd feeling at first, particularly with the standard Google site navigation peeking out at the top of the browser page. An easy way to make the whole experience a little more natural is to turn on full-screen mode, which removes all the navigation and document rulers, leaving you with nothing but a roomy canvas for your words.

Select "Full screen" from the "View" menu, and look—nothing but you and your words.

To activate full-screen mode, click the View menu (in your browser, not your desktop) and select “Full screen”—simple enough, right? To return the standard view, hit the “Esc” key.

Want to simplify your document view without losing the Google Docs menu, controls, and document rulers? Instead of selecting “Full screen” from the View menu, try “Compact controls,” a mode that may make desktop Office users feel ever more at home in Google Docs.

(By the way, if you’re worried about losing all your work if your browser crashes, don’t; Google Docs saves your changes almost instantly after you’ve added them.)

Just drag photos from your desktop and drop them straight into your web browser. Nice.

2. Drag photos directly into a document
Want to add some images or snapshots to your Google word document? Don’t worry—you won’t have to deal with a tedious Upload page. Instead, just drag an image file directly into your Google doc and drop it wherever you’d like it to go. Once the image is in your document, just grab one of the “handles” along the edges and drag to resize. Neat.

3. Drag a document into a folder
The main Google Docs interface boasts three columns: one that lists your folders (or “collections,” as Google calls them), a second with all your individual Google Doc files, and a third that shows details for any document you select.

Organizing your many Google documents into folders used to be a painful process (well, relatively painful, anyway) of selecting a file and choosing a folder from a pop-up window—and hence, I never bothered with Google Docs folders until recently.

What changed? Well, you can now simply click a document and drag it straight into a collection in the left-hand column. Done (and yes, all my Google documents are now filed neatly away).

4. Share a folder with a friend
One of the beauties of Google Docs is that you can share any given document—or an entire folder—with a friend, colleague, or a group. While sharing a single document is handy, sharing an entire folder is an even more powerful feature. Why? Because once you share a folder, any documents you create or drag into that folder will also be shared automatically. By the same token, any documents you drag out of a folder are instantly un-shared.

To share a folder (or, again, a “collection”), just click on one in the left-hand column in the main Google Docs page, click the little down arrow to the right, and select Share. In the pop-up window that appears, type in the Google IDs or email address of those with which you’d like to share your documents. You’ll also be able to designate whether your collaborators will be able to edit your shared documents or simply view them. (By the way, if you and someone else are editing a Google doc at the same time, you’ll see their real-time edits right there in the browser, and you can even text chat in a pane on the right side of the page. Neat!)

Uploading entire folders of documents into your Google Docs account is pretty much a snap.

5. Upload an entire folder
Not only can you upload individual Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files into Google Docs for online editing, you can also upload entire folders at once, which are instantly organized into a “collection” in your Google Docs account.

To give it a try, click the Upload button in the upper-left corner of the main Google Docs screen, then select “Folder” and select the desktop folder you want to upload from the pop-up window that appears. A second pop-up will ask your permission to convert your Office documents to the necessary Google Docs format (don’t worry, you won’t hurt your original files).

Nice, but there’s one catch: You’ll need to be using Google’s free Chrome web browser to upload an entire folder at once. You can download Chrome right here.

All done? Then check out the Collections column on the left side of the main Google Docs page: all your uploaded documents should be sitting right there.

Stay tuned for a full-on Google Docs beginner’s guide in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, have any random Google Docs questions? Let me know.

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