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Originally Posted by Duiker
To add another voice as soon as I saw your post I was confused by the terminology. Have to agree with Harry on this one. Sideloading is a USB transfer. Anything else is simply a download. On that note, are you using the Kindles web browser to access Dropbox?
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Still in the researching stage. Don't have that Kindle yet & maybe not. Just have the K1. Was looking for something lighter than my iPad 4 for traveling. Would probably still use the iPad at home.
I had never looked up the term "sideloading". My concept of downloading is getting something from someone else, e.g. purchased from Amazon, borrowed from library. And looked at sideloading as loading an ebook of my own to my reader, regardless of the method of transferring it. I.e. my concept was that 'loading' something from one of my devices to another of my devices (regardless of the avenue through which it was loaded) was
sideloading. Loading something to someone else's device was
uploading and from someone else's device was
downloading. Since I saw Dropbox simply as a 'way station' in the avenue of loading from my PC to my reader, it seemed more like sideloading.
Wikipedia (not always accurate) says,"Sideloading typically refers to media file transfer to a mobile device via USB, Bluetooth or by writing to a memory card for insertion into the mobile device."
I would personally have thought that wifi (my own home network) to be similar to Bluetooth. And the Dropbox is 'mine' even though it resides on someone else's computer/drive. I guess it gets kinda of gray there. Comes from talking mostly with yourself.
Oh well, like I told my daughter years ago, "Words don;t necessarily mean what you want them to but what most people you're communicating with take them to mean." So I stand corrected before the 'community'.