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Old 03-21-2014, 10:44 AM   #789
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by nypaulie View Post
To do this you'd need Android installed on your PW. So far nobody's reported having done this, but that's something I'd REALLY like to see happen. I don't have it, but perhaps someone does has the savvy to tell us the feasibility of this being done. We had success installing Android on the Nook Simpletouch (no backlight), but when that unit was upgraded to the backlit Glowlight (similar to our Paperwhite) that's where that ability was lost. I do not know this, but the architecture of these two new backlit readers may be similar and very difficult to "Androidify".
I was under the impression that the Nook product line is already running Android. And that you can still root any Nook to run arbitrary .apk's.

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