I put hundreds of e-books into the "Books" directory on the SD card and the app wouldn't even notice they were there.
Amazon also announced yesterday that it would stop carrying the Chromecast and Appletv, devices from Google and Apple that compete with its own Fire TV.īut then, for all that the SD card is supposedly the Fire's most compelling feature, and the Fire's other media apps are able to use it just fine (as I'll discuss when I get to Amazon Video in a bit), the Kindle app simply wouldn't recognize it at all. When I circulate early drafts of my books to friends and family, they frequently can't figure out how to get their Kindles, phones and tablets to recognize them, even when they're formated as MOBIs and EPUBs.Įvery walled garden wants to keep out the competition. I've noticed that most device ecosystems make it hard to use sideloaded media. The Kindle Fire comes with a SDXC card slot that outclasses every other tablet in its price range, accommodating storage cards that can hold as much as 128GB of media - but it won't read ebooks from the slot.Ĭhris adds, "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."
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