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I am thinking about getting a eReader soon, possibly the Kindle Fire. But I am a huge Google Fan and I like to stay in the domain of Google. I don't want to get a Android Tablet now because I am on like a $250 budget. And If I were to get a Android Tablet it would be the Samsung Tab 10.1, and that is $400. I mainly want to use it for reading books, and I do want to stay in the Google domain, and I was just wondering if it was possible to use Google Books on a Kindle Fire, or possibly another Kindle devise. I don't need internet, or apps, or too many games. Mainly for reading. |
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Not directly because the Kindle Fire doesn't support the ePub format that Google Books uses. You can, however, convert them from ePub to the mobi format as long as they aren't DRM protected (some Google Books are, some aren't) and then load them on Thank you for that answer. Do you think that it will ever be compatible? no idea sorry. I wouldn't count on it though, it isn't necessarily in Amazon's interest to make it compatible with other formats when they use their own format (KF8 and AZW). That's not to say they definitely won't though... I think you can reasonably assume they definitely won't given the industry's previous record on file compatibility (to say nothing of Amazon's record on protecting its own interests!) Personally I download all ebooks to my desktop, convert them into simple text files using Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) and read them on an ancient mini-tablet (Windows CE5, no less) that I just happened to have lying around. I have yet to be convinced that there is any good reason to shell out even the £89 UK price of the basic Kindle for what is basically a picture frame, especially as ebooks are still being sold for the same price as their paper equivalent. |
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It's ironic that Google makes Android which the Kindle uses as the foundation for it's OS yet the Kindle running Android can't even use Google ebooks in the epub format. |
