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Old 07-17-2025, 01:10 PM   #51
tombert
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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef View Post
Thanks! By coincidence, the GL4+ was actually for my wife as well, although she's grown pretty frustrated with the device constantly freezing, taking forever to sync, and other needling issues. There's probably a Kobo in her future, but I thought if I could get the full Android system enabled, we might be able to install some other apps that could more easily let her access her other ecosystems (Libby, Kindle, Kobo, etc) and alleviate some of those frustrations.
I haven't tested it, but I think you can sideload Libby or Kindle without a root. If you can find the Libby APK, you should be able to enable USB debugging (how to do that is mentioned earlier in this thread) with adb install LibbyAPK.apk, and if you have my stupid launcher app installed, you should be able to do it just fine.

I don't see any reason why Libby app *wouldn't* work without root, but as I said I haven't tried it. I can't really test now because it *is* rooted.

For what it's worth, we haven't observed any freezes when using KOReader.
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