![]() ![]() Meanwhile on the product page for the new Fire 7 tablet the word audiobook isn’t mentioned a single time. SMPL One-Touch Music Player, Audiobooks + MP3, Quality-Sound, Durable Wooden Encloser with Retro Look, 4GB USB with 40 Nostalgic Hits Included, Live Technical. Amazon, the Amazon logo, Audible, the Audible logo, ACX, and the ACX logo and Audiobook Creation Exchange. It’s almost like Amazon is trying to tell people how to use Kindles instead of listening to how people want to use Kindles.Īmazon doesn’t even bother to mention key reading features on the product page for the new Kindle, like supporting library ebooks from public libraries, but they’re sure to mention audiobook support half a dozen times. What about the fans of your books who aren’t yet audio listeners Whether they’re devoted followers or folks who’ve only read one title, you want to get them listening. Just about anything else is going to be better for playing audio.Īmazon acts like Audible support is the greatest feature they’ve ever added to Kindles, like switching between reading and listening is something everybody does. There’s no advantage to having a Kindle in this scenario. Or you can get a $49 Fire tablet with enough battery life to last over 24 hours for streaming audio.įire tablets support Immersion Reading as well, which lets you read along with highlighted text as the narrator reads aloud, and they also support text-to-speech, which Kindles do not. You can pay up to $369 for the new Kindle Oasis with 4G LTE, and the battery will only last 8 hours tops for listening to audiobooks from a full charge. Plus Amazon makes it so you can’t even read on a Kindle while an audiobook is playing, which seems like a wasted opportunity when learning new languages. ![]() Kindles don’t have large enough batteries to be good portable audio players, and unless you upgrade to the more expensive 32GB models, you’ll barely have enough storage space for a handful of full-length audiobooks anyway.
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