Fire HD 8

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Fire HD 8

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245 Reddit opinions

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107 positive6 neutral132 negative

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What is the best addition you made to your WFH situation that wasn't for actual work?

I bought a Fire HD 8-inch tablet and a DAC. I side-loaded UAPP (USB Audio Player Pro) onto the tablet and connected the output to my receiver. Now I have all of the music, especially the 24/96 FLAC files on my Synology NAS available (via DLNA) on a decent sized screen for me to play, it is completel

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IWuzTheWalrus in r/workfromhome

April 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM

7

Cheap alternative to iPad mini6-7

As the title states, I have a cheap alternative for the iPad mini to work with a Backbone… It’s an Amazon fire HD 8… it runs well… You just have to do some minor tweaking to the software of the fire by installing the Google play store, it took me about 10 minutes to get it running on Nvidia GeForce

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Elegant_Proposal_888 in r/Backbone

December 16, 2024 at 6:31 AM

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I was just gifted a Kindle Fire HD 8 can I use it as an E reader?

Technically, this is not a Kindle, but Amazon Fire HD (tablet). Having said that, you can still absolutely use this as a Kindle! (I used to use mine like that) As the other comment suggests, the best alternative to the Kindle app (if you don't want to use an Amazon account) would be Redeara. You can

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SifKiForever in r/ereader

May 25, 2026 at 4:17 AM

5

Wild Rift runs amazingly on even the lowest tier devices

Just tried it with my fire hd 8 tablet and works flawlessly.

Thank you riot

LivingInaWonderland in r/wildrift

April 2, 2021 at 9:44 AM

176

What happened to all my books? had been reading on my kindle with Calibre for ~ 3 or 4 years, suddelny my entire collection is gone (except what was purchased through kindle)

Few things. Fire HD 8 is not a kindle. So your title is wrong. Secondly yes it is a black and white e ink screen. I was simply providing what I did to get out of the Amazon echo system. Lastly amazon devices have been having issues with side loaded ebooks. This is a known issue. Head over to mobile

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a_rabid_buffalo in r/Calibre

March 20, 2026 at 12:10 AM

7

I tested GeForce NOW across different devices for science

The devices I tested are: A Kindle fire HD 8' (some mediatek (1.8ghz) quad core 1.5gb's of ram)

A LG rebel (1st Gen) (a snapdragon 210 1gb of ram)

A LG G7 Thinq (snapdragon 845 4gb's of ram)

And a Moto e5 play (snapdragon 427 2gb's of ram) Last of the Android devices (for now, I plan to test it o

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CaptFox24 in r/nvidia

February 6, 2020 at 5:10 AM

126

Shadow running on a Kindle Fire HD 8, I was curious if it would run but it works great. Resubmit due to no flair.

Acimal in r/ShadowPC

April 23, 2020 at 2:19 AM

102

New Fire HD 8

Just bought the new Fire HD 8. This is my 2nd Fire. I bought it for a couple reasons. I couldn't pass up the price, between the sale, my employee discount and my card discount it was more than half off. Also my other Fire is 7 years old.

Beowulfie696 in r/kindlefire

November 16, 2024 at 4:26 AM

15

iPad for tabletop navigator?

Cheapest way - Amazon Fire tablet (8" is a reasonable price), enable the real Google Play store vs the stupid Amazon Fire store...which you can easily do, then put the C4 app on it, and the "Fully Single App Kiosk" app. It'll be locked in as a C4 only android device. The Fire 8 tablet is $99 and usu

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Anonymous5791 in r/Control4

October 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM

6

Is Amazon methodically wrecking Google Apps?

Now Google Docs, Sheets, and Keep are all crashing when opened up. They haven't wrecked Chrome yet but I expect that may be coming. I already had to find 2 other Clients for Gmail and Calendar. They are making this tablet far less useful to me as time goes on. It is the current Fire HD 8 tablet.

epictetusdouglas in r/kindlefire

July 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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