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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
Thanks for all the feedback! I really appreciate you taking the time to look up the specs on your tablets for me.
I also loved the thread summary! I forgot that is how those threads usually end up!
I bought my daughter a set of My Little Pony comic books, so the color screen is a big consideration. She does have an e-ink Kindle that she reads occasionally, but I have bought a few books for her from the Not Amazon Bookstores and would like to just download them without the hassle of hooking up to my computer. I was going to install the NOOK and KOBO apps on her Kindle Fire, thinking it would save me some trouble, only to find out there are no alternate reading apps available in the Amazon App store!
It's just as well, since I did sideload quite a few Kindle books onto her and her brother's Fires and they don't get read because of the distraction of all the games.
I have been wanting a small tablet for myself for when I'm away from home -- to read books, reference knitting patterns, maybe do some photo editing -- and this time of the year is good for buying them. I have a couple of larger 10" tablets -- iPad and NOOK HD+ -- but they are heavy to carry around with me for "just in case." Excellent for videos and reading, but not so good for packing light when I'm on the road. The HP Stream 7 is also $99, which I think is a good price for what I'm looking for. |
Actually the free version of Moon+ Reader is available in the Amazon app store for Fire. I've also successfully sideloaded the pro version that I bought from the Amazon app store. It can read DRM free epub and mobi. I've heard a few people say they were able to sideload the other bookstore apps (sorry, I don't remember which offhand) but I haven't tried it. It was a while ago, before the recent FireOS update, so I'm not sure if that can still be done.
I love the higher resolution on my HDX, but I had no problem reading for a few hours on my 2012 Fire HD with the lower resolution.