
(Some of the personalization comes from Google's Songza purchase.) A $9.99 monthly individual subscription gives you unlimited skips and an ad-free music stream. Listen to music for free or with a subscription: Google Play Music offers a competitive alternative to other music services, such as Spotify and Apple Music with personalized playlists and radio stations, podcasts, albums, and individual song tracks you can listen to for free or with a subscription. The app also includes Google Play Protect, which periodically scans your device for potentially harmful apps and checks apps before you download them from the Google Play Store. Google claims only 0.05 percent of Android devices that download apps solely from its Play Store have a potentially harmful app. Protects device by vetting apps: Google uses in-store and on-device monitoring to guard against harmful apps. The Play Store also serves as an entertainment hub, letting you buy or rent movies, TV shows, books, and music, which you can watch or listen to on your Android device, Chromecast-connected TV, and through the Chrome browser on your Mac or Windows PC. The idea is to enjoy a distraction-free reading experience, so the omission of Google Play Store access, or access to any app store, for that matter, is intentional and purposeful.With the Google Play Store app, download apps and games for your Android phone or tablet. When it comes to Kindle e-readers, however, stick with simple reading with these devices, which is what they are designed to accomplish. But it’s advisable to download an anti-malware security app first.

If you have some technical know-how, you can give it a go.

But this isn’t something the average person will want to try. These can technically work with Google Play store as well through a workaround that involves downloading and installing APK files. If you’re looking for a Kindle device that can access apps, any Kindle Fire device running Fire OS 5.3.1.1 or later comes with the Amazon App Store. But even that Kindle does not afford access to apps, though you can browse the web.

The highest-end model in the Kindle line is the Kindle Scribe, which combines both an e-reader and a digital notebook for composing journal entries, taking notes, making annotations, accessing and editing PDFs, and more. Some premium models, like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (11th Gen), include Wi-Fi access built-in so you can surf the web and enjoy assistive features while reading, like being able to look up words and passages, get definitions, and more.
