I wonder how easy it would be to root that an just have a nice cyanogen tablet with it?
My Android ePub reader of choice is Aldiko Book Reader, for those of you coming by 
New '0 Kindle Fire wonât recognize sideloaded ebooks on SD cards
The post title seems borked. Supposed to be $50 Kindle Fire, i checked on both Firefox and IE and itâs incorrect on both. Is it just me thatâs seeing the title as such? Title shows up as correct when iâm in the comments though.
When I circulate early drafts of my books to friends and family, they frequently canât figure out how to get their Kindles, phones and tablets to recognize them, even when theyâre formated as MOBIs and EPUBs.
On an iPhone or iPad, you can directly open any ePub in iBooks via the share sheet. The same share sheet will let you open in any other reader that supports it, like the official Kobo app or Marvin. Pretty simple.
Amazon loves to lock down the boot loader on their Fire tablets. If/when these new ones can be unlocked Iâll be grabbing a Fire 10 and giving it the cyanogen treatment. XDAâs got forums all stubbed out and ready to go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10
So what?
Why would I want to use crappy Kindle app that has limited configuration options to read sideloaded books?
Coolreader or FBReader are much better, IMHO, and there are even fancier [paid] apps for e-book reading.
âEvery walled garden wants to keep out the competition.â
If that were the case then the app wouldnât open the ebooks in the first place, and Amazon would not offer the email delivery and conversion of personal ebooks.
And if Amazon really wants to keep out the competition, Cory, then why do they store your personal ebooks for free in their cloud?
But hey, donât let a little logic spoil your anti-Amazon rant, Cory.
The Send To Kindle app works a treat for me to send Mobi files to my regular e-ink Kindle. Just as an FYI. Thatâs completely beside the main point of the OP, though.
Thereâs another recent headline with a similar problem:
Clone your dog. Itâll cost you 00,000, and this is the only lab in the world that will do it.
Thatâs supposed to be â$100,000â judging from the text.
Why does BoingBoing hate strings of the form â$â + [numerical digit]? What nefarious code is responsible here?
If I read the review correctly, the built-in app wonât find them, but it will open them.
And - it will both find them and open them, and keep track of your place, if they are on internal storage.
Once it became clear that it worked just fine on internal storage, this started to seem less like even a moderate conspiracy, and more like an extremely conservative design decision. Ebooks on SD cards can move around, and can go away on a momentâs notice. Deciding to treat them as second class, compared to ebooks on the internal store, is something you might do when you want the super-simple operation, with the attendant low support costs.
Is this an ideal way to operate? Not at all. But itâs not entirely surprising coming from a low-margin source like Amazon.
Theyâre using Wordpress, which is built on PHP⌠PHP variables start with $, so Iâm guessing thereâs some bug there.
Thatâs what they want you to think. A nice, tidy explanation with a convenient patsy. But this goes so much deeper.
If you want to know the truth, follow the money. OH WAIT, YOU CANâT.
It will be interesting to see if they have any luck. Amazonâs first few models were amateur hour in terms of lockdown; but theyâve been upping their game as time goes on; and certainly seem unlikely for them to let anyone remove ShoppingOS if they can help it.
Ah, misleading headlines.
You donât get clicks with accuracy! Just like you donât make friends with salad.
Iâm not a fan. Donât like the ui. Moon+ is alright, and there was another one I used before that that (I forget the name, but its, like, in the top 5 on Play) that was good, till the devs fucked with the ui so much that every last square inch of your screen did something different, and a misplaced tap or swipe b0rked everything. âUpdatesâ my arse. If it ainât broke donât fucking fix itâŚ
AH-HA! Cool Reader! Yes, that was the one I was talking about above that got fiddled to death. Shame, it was good for a while.
I have been using Coolreader for years on all my android devices and have never had an issue. I try the Kindle app every once in a while, but never stay with for more than a day. yuck
Considering that the files opened fine when manually opened I really doubt Amazon is purposely going out of its way to ignore the files. I suspect that the Kindle app simply looks for its library in a specific directory and doesnât search outside it.
