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Originally Posted by p3aul
Your reply brings up an interesting thought though. I have seen this statement before but I don't know what it means: Sideloading. What does sideloading refer to? I just plugged in the tablet, Calibre recognized it and I transferred books like I did my old Sony 505. This is a new term for me.
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Sideloading is what you do to get books on it. Basically, it means transferring books (or anything else) via USB, rather than buying books from B&N (or whoever made the particular device) directly through the device.
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Originally Posted by p3aul
Also what does "rooting" mean?
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Installing a different operating system than what came on the device. Or, generally, a different variant of the same operating system (mostly, they're Android). The stock, off the shelf OS is generally pretty locked down. On a nook, for instance, you can only buy and run apps through B&N's app store, but if you install a generic version of Android, you can get apps from many different places.