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Originally Posted by Tarana
As mentioned by another poster, the disadvantage of the Fire over other tablets is that you are locked down to Amazon unless you sideload. I can read Kindle, Barnes&Noble, Kobo on my Nook HD+ (as I could on any other tablet). I can only download from Amazon's cloud on the Fire. Not too annoying for me since I have Calibre and can load it, but I cannot benefit from cloud libraries with this restriction.
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With some trouble you can install the same free apps as on any other tablet.
Also you can use the browser on any Kindle to navigate to Gutenberg.org and click to download. Do you count this as 'sideloading' ?