This is literally my first experience with Android, so I apologize for my ignorance.

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    21 days ago

    ? Depends on the app? As the other commenter said you can also install an alt app store. You can also just download the apk directly to the device and install it.

    I use mine solely as an ereader so the only apps I have installed are Firefox and mihon (a tachiyomi fork for reading manga).

    Games kind of suck on the panel tbh, anything that needs a lot of motion like youtube is similar. It works but it’s garbage compared to oled/lcd

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      21 days ago

      Yeah, I mainly got it as an e-reader to save my eyes. I wanted to put my work email on it too, but I’m having trouble with the security oversight app or whatever it’s called. I just hate giving even one more shred of my info to Google.

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        21 days ago

        Oh if you want to de google it then that’s possible too

        https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=042c62c12ab4c37892a412e7afd5bd14&t=355147&page=5

        This thread has info on rooting it (start on page 1) and the page I linked actually has people successfully installing Ubuntu on it. Works pretty well. I flashed android back because I ultimately just read on it and don’t use it as a tablet but if you want to use it as a tablet I think Linux works better. Yu can degoogle it without flashing Linux of course but that’s a whole thing and I don’t know if there’s a custom rom for such a niche device, you may have to figure that much out yourself and disable services etc. the stock boox rom is already fairly degoogled tho thankfully aside from the play store