If I buy an Amazon Fire, (since it's Android) can I download the Nook app?

Pretty sure you can, my daughter has a nook tablet onto which she has downloaded the kindle app. I imagine the reverse would be possible as well.

Maybe not. Under the questions for the Fire on Amazon, several people are asking, and the results are mixed—some say no, some say yes if you’ve got “advanced knowledge” of computers. There’s one YouTube link to a how-to that many people keep posting, and I guess it works, but I wouldn’t follow its advice for fear of security (the guy has you download some unknown files of his… and then you log in to the Google Play app that you’ve downloaded from this stranger… he might be well-meaning, I just don’t know so I wouldn’t risk it.)

If there’s a way to download Nook books to your computer as ePub files, then that might be another route—can transfer them over—my brief search didn’t come up with a way to do that, and I don’t actually have any purchased eBooks to test it out.

I’m not too familiar with the Fire and what it does—alternatives might be iPad mini (does have Nook app) or Samsung Galaxy tablets (they’re more directly in Google ecosystem, and Google Play has Nook… and it looks like Samsung even has Nook-specific tablets… NOOK by Samsung Tablets is splashed across the front of the Nook front page.)

My understanding of the limitations of the Amazon Fire is that it does not come with the App for the Google Play Storr pre-installed the way most other tablets do.

(The Amazon Appstore and the Google Play Stpre are in direct competition with each other.)

And for that matter, other tablets do NOT contain the App for the Amazon Appstore pre-installed (but they do have Googles Playsyore pre-installed.)

From experience, I know that it’s a fairly simple step by step procedure to put the Amazon App on any Android device and it’s not necessary to go anywhere other than the Amazon website.

But i’ve never had to do the opposite (put the Google Playstore App on a Fire tablet) since I’ve never owned an Amazon tablet.

Apparently you can do what’s called “sideloading” to get the Google Playstore App onto your Fire Tablet but it involves using a computer to do so.

And, of course then you can download the Nook App from Google with no problem. And any other Google Apps which you might want.

But avoiding the whole necessity of sideloading is the reason why I dropped the Fire tablet from my list of possible tablets to buy.

It didn’t make sense to me when ALL the other tablets on the market (other than cheapo Chinese knockoffs) provided such easy access to the Google Playstore and The Nook App.

Is there a particular reason why you are considering purchasing the Amazon Fire tablet when there are so many other high rated tablets (Samsung, Apple, etc ) on which you can download the Nook App with just a few clicks?

To me it just didn’t seeem worth the hassle.