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More progress. Was able to install FBReader by just going to their website and clicking on the link for the apk. FBReader has built in OPDS support. Seems to be a decent reading app. No problem storing/opening books to and from the sd card.
Plex app works fantastic. Streams from my home PC to this fire tablet no problem. I went ahead and signed up for the premium account to test out the ability to download the movies. Worked like a charm. Plex server automatically transcodes the moves from whatever native format to a nice small format for the device and then downloads them to the sd card.
Not sure how long I'll keep with the $5/mo plan to have that feature vs just using Handbrake to convert the formats on my computer and just load them on the card myself.
I think I have my use cases covered. Of course all the Amazon services worked great out of the box. Kindle books, Audible books, Prime movies and Music. All work fantastic.
Netflix and HBO Go are both available officially. No apk side loading needed. Hulu is too but I don't subscribe to them.
As so much of my travel is sans decent enough wifi (airplane, many hotels, vacation destinations where Sprint has no coverage) - I also needed to be able to load content to the device and not just stream it.
With some work with locating and installing APK's, I have an epub reader and with Plex the ability to load movies. I know I can just load them on the card myself too.
Really happy with this $50 device
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