Even sideloaded books and PDFs — just send them to the Kindle's free email address.
Not exact matches
Even longer answer: You can not access the play store through the kobo reader (in any meaningful way), but you can download epub
books from the play
book store, and then use Adobe Digital Editions to
sideload them onto your kobo.
Even so, it isn't a big deal to
sideload books.
New users might struggle with the concept of
sideloading in their own
books or
even knowing on where to download them from the internet.
Indexing gets stuck, especially with
sideloaded books, with no real way of fixing it — or
even determining * which *
book is stuck — other than deleting the
books and trying again.
A couple of other details: Word Runner only works in portrait view, and it's not available for all
books and doesn't work for
sideloaded ebooks,
even if you send / email them to your Kindle account.
Unfortunately Amazon makes lock - in easy, so a lot of people don't avail themselves of other options,
even other eBook options which are easy if you use a tablet or phone to read on — that's why I purchase both Nook and Kindle
books, and a lot of my SF directly from Baen eBooks where I can
sideload them to my iPad.
This process occurs every time you add a
book to the Kindle,
even ones that use
sideload manually.
Even better, you can combine your B&N eBooks with your
sideloaded eBooks, which is great if you happen to aqcuire your
books from several different sources.
This also means that you can use library
books from the Overdrive system as well, in fact B&N has now allowed the Overdrive app into their app store so you don't
even have to
sideload library
books anymore if you don't wish to.