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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
One can hope, but it's highly doubtful Amazon will ever mark any reading apps (besides library apps like OverDrive) in their store as compatible. They're selling Fire's at cost in the hopes of making money on content and other reading apps on the device don't further that goal.
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I understand that, but their own offering is poor. Apart from not supporting epub it lacks other features like being able to hold the tablet & operate with left hand only ( 'cos you cannot customize the touch zones).
I read somewhere today that Amazon have launched a new improved Kindle for Android app, but the version on my KF as at this afternoon seems like same old, same old....
At present I am only using the Amazon app for the 1 book per calendar month prime loan, as I can't convert those. I've also used those to check out the much vaunted X-ray facility but it does not excite me much, certainly not enough to want to move away from epubs.
It seesm to me like they themselves are unsure whether to promote the Kindle Fire range as book readers, or as audio/video consumption devices, so thay made only a half-arsed effort with the reader app.
& lets not mention how well it handles book shelves/ collections... ( not! )
So there are many reasons oo prefer a good 3rd party reader.