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it is not that odd - amazon want to sell Fire tablets as well as videos, so they hold back some features to give them an exclusive.
also, I think that they select graphics chips for Fire that have hardware decode for the specific codecs that Amazon choose to stream in. I know they do that for the fire tV range - it's how they can offer 4k on dirt cheap boxes
but the amazon video app is full HD on Roku, PS3, ps4, Samsung & sony TVs, - it's only android that gets relegated to SD. None of what I just listed has the ( not very useful) x-ray feature either, though I believe that ipad does get that.
as for reader apps, providing you do the google play etc installs as per earlier discussions you can have the same range of epub reader apps as any other android tablet..
but all premium epub reader apps that are capable of text to voice synthesis are blocked in the amazon app store, to protect audio book add-on sales..
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