Yeah, I was kinda tempted (I miss having a tablet since my N10 dies), but I couldn't find any useful info about unlocking and getting a custom ROM on the new Fire HDs. That said, the regular ol' Kindle app for Android should work just fine with CyanogenMod (which has been discontinued and reborn as LineageOS). On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Mike Miller wrote: > I took advantage of Amazon's recent Prime Day sale to buy a Fire HD 8 > for $50. I wanted it mostly for reading Kindle books. That seemed > like a good deal. How do they keep the price down? Maybe by running > ads on the splash screen, controlling what software you can install, > contracting with Microsoft, stuff like that? > > I would be interested in making it more usable, but I want the > existing Amazon Kindle stuff to keep working as before. I have an old > Fire (that I bought from someone here) which has CyanogenMod, but the > Kindle Reader won't work. Maybe that's an anomaly and the Kindle > Reader normally would work after the mod. Is that true? > > I'm not sure if the Fire HD 8 is crackable, yet, but it looks like I > can at least fix it up a bit: > > Making Amazon’s 2017 Fire tablets more Googley (Play Store, > third-party launchers) > https://liliputing.com/2017/07/making-amazons-fire-hd-8-2017-googley-play-store-third-party-launchers.html > > > By the way, why 7/10 for Prime Day? Ten isn't prime. Why wasn't it > 7/11/17? ;-) > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >