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$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card
Robotech_Master writes: For all that the $50 Fire tablet has a 128 GB capable SDXC card slot that outclasses every other tablet in its price range, and it evolved out of Amazon's flagship e-book reader, it strangely lacks the ability to index e-books on that card. This seems like a strange oversight, given that every other media app on the tablet uses that card for downloading and storage, and its 5 GB usable internal memory isn't a lot for people who have a large library of picture-heavy e-books—especially if they want to install other apps, too.
Sorry. All Fire products are off my list until Amazon starts selling Chromecast and AppleTV again.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Because then it would be trivial for you to also read books that you *didn't* get from Amazon. And we can't have that, now can we?
No we can't. Not for $50 at least.
If you want a $200 tablet for the price of $50, obviously something has to give. Amazon is not in the charity business.
The same goes if Amazon suddenly rents you the tablet for 1 penny a month.
Amazon has to recoup its hardware cost somehow.
I converted all my ebooks to epub using Calibre and really like the Kobo Glo for reading.