I would suggest the Google app for reading it allows you to bookmark from your computer, laptop or tablet has expanding features to make reading more fun, lots of fonts and other features and allows you to toss books into your tablet from any other device. I can upload dozens of books from my computer and when I open the tablet they are all there for me to read. I am a voratious reader and have about 18k books at my disposal. The Google Play Books app was my choice after trying them all.
Yeah, Aldiko is nice, and so is Moon+. (Though I tend to favor Google Play Books overall.) But unfortunately, you canât install apps from the Play Store onto the Fire. Which means Iâm pretty much limited for the Fire to whatâs available in Amazonâs appstore.
Huh? You sure can sideload and install apps.
The books are there. They only show up under documents.
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There is no âdocuments.â All thatâs there in the main area of the kindle app screen is âAllâ and âDownloadedâ for books.
Under the âhamburgerâ next to âBooksâ at the top left are categories for âBooks Library,â âStorefront,â âCollections,â âGoodreads,â and then a bunch more categories from the on-line store.
In the upper right are icons for changing how your book is sorted, launching Goodreads, and your shopping cart.
There is no âdocumentsâ anywhere to be found in this app. Iâve looked.
Would you like to be more clear about where such a thing might be?
Well what is that docs icon on the home menu screen?..lol
Firstly, thatâs not part of the Kindle app, which is what that section of this article is about; thatâs an entirely different app on the tablet. Someone wanting to read e-books would use the app associated with e-books, which is to say, âKindleâ.
Secondly, on my tablet the âDocumentsâ app only shows items that have been sent-to-Kindle, are in the cloud drive, or are in internal memory. Thereâs no listing of documents on the SD card at all, nor can I find a way to make it switch over.
Donât short out ârobotechâ you want to read sideloaded mobi files thatâs what you got to do.
What is what I got to go? So far, your suggestion hasnât actually shown any of said files.
Books in local storage under documents. If you have all your other stuff on the SD card than the space is more than enough for you ebooks.
Not suggestions bruh. Files need to be .mobi then when you open them under documents they open just like they would in the books/library section.
Dude, hereâs my âBooksâ folder on my SD card, which has like 1,200 books in it.
And hereâs my Documents program. Note the empty âBooksâ folder at the bottom.
Even leaving aside that they should show up in the âKindleâ app, since theyâre e-books and a Kindle is what you read e-books onâas they do in a hardware Kindle, such as a Paperwhite, if you sideloadâthey simply arenât there in this app either.
I didnât think Cory was personally communicating that he didnât know how to do it. His readers donâtâŚ
Would you say that youâre disappointed?
I understand that. But the share sheet is basic functionality. Itâs the equivalent of âCopy toâ on an iPhone. Would it be fair to imply that a PC doesnât support having multiple copies of a file because some users donât know how to right-click on a file? That was kind of the impression I got.
The point is, with this Fire, you donât get the same basic functionality you get with a Kindle. A Kindle will recognize youâve loaded e-books into its memory, index them, and keep track of your place in them when you stop reading. This $50 Fire tablet, which is supposed to be better than an e-ink KindleâŚdoesnât, unless you put them in its internal storageâits internal storage which is already skimpy even by tablet (or even by smartphone) standards.
The whole point of sticking this 128 GB SD card slot in is so that you can keep all your media on it, reserving the precious internal storage for apps and such. That being the case, you would expect the Kindleâs e-book reader app to track such books if you load them onto the SD card, too. But it doesnât. And while opening them from a file system browser might let you read them that time you open them, whenever you turn the tablet off it will completely forget your place in the book. This is a step backward from the e-ink reader.
(And donât even get me started on how Amazon prevents third-party EPUB readers that it carries in its appstore from being installed onto the Fire at all, even though itâs perfectly capable of running them.)
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Is this a problem specific to the fifty dollar Kindle Fire, or is shared with other higher priced Kindle Fires?
This is absolutely the case. But what Corey wrote was that tablets and phones are hard to side load on to. My point is that itâs actually very easy to side load an ePub on an iOS device using. People like to ding Apple for being very closed, but this is a case in which theyâre quite open. If you have a basic understanding of the affordances of the operating system, itâs dead simple to an ePub into whatever app you would like, provided the developer has used the tools available to her or him.
As far as I know, itâs shared with all the new Kindle tablets. Which makes it even worse, given that youâre paying a lot more for the higher-priced ones and they still fall short of a cheaper e-ink reader.
