Essential Apps for the Amazon Kindle Fire and How to Install Them

The Amazon Kindle Fire is proving to be a critical success for the company and they should be shipping 5 million units by the end of the year. The Amazon App Store is populated with a ton of Android programs for your device, but it does not have everything you might want. If you live outside of the USA and are not using an American address and credit card on your Amazon account, the company limits your app downloads. This new way of installing apps if perfect to still get the programs and games you want.

The first thing you want to do is make sure your Kindle Fire is going to physically allow you to install applications from other sources. Go to more, settings, device. Make sure “allow install from unknown sources” is on. When you do this you can now download apps from the internet and install them right to your unit.

Tutorial

Simple click on this link on your Amazon Kindle Fire  http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/essential-apps-for-the-amazon-kindle-fire-and-how-to-install-them/ and click on any of the links, at which point they will manually install the files to  your device. Once the download is done you will see a notification flag. Click on this and you can install the application, and when it is finished you will see it on your APPS shelf.

Independent e-Reading Apps

• Wattpad
• FBREADER
• Aldiko
• Moon+ Reader
• Cool Reader
• Mantano Reader

Mainstream E-Reading Applications

• Borders
• Amazon Kindle
• Sony Reading
• Google Books
• Kobo Books
• Overdrive
• Nook for Android

Comic Book Reader Apps

• Comic Book Reader MOBI
• Perfect Viewer
• JJ Comics Viewer
• Droid Comic Viewer
• Comixology

Alternative Android Markets

• Slideme
• Android Pit
• AndAppStore
• Amazon App Store
• App Brain
• APKTOP

Essential Installs

• Meridian – Best Multimedia Player for Music and Videos
• Dolphin HD – Web Browser
• ES File Explorer
• Astro File Manager
• Google Gmail
• Android PDF Reader

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