The kindle whispersync technology (that matches your place in the e-book to your place in the audiobook) has promise.
Not exact matches
To use
Whispersync for Voice to switch between text and audio using
Kindles and their smartphone, customers can download Audible's free mobile app for iPhone and Android phones.
The real gem for Kindle owners though is
Whispersync, Amazon's integrated Cloud synchronisation software which not only backs - up purchased content but also synchronises your furthest reading position across multiple
Kindles or devices using Kindle apps.
Text - to - speech used to be a pretty big feature for
Kindles, but Amazon doesn't seem to be interested in evolving it much further anymore — now they'd rather push selling audiobooks instead and promote their
Whispersync for Voice feature that syncs audiobooks and ebooks together in the same app.
And if you have been reading the same Kindle Store» books across multiple
Kindles, you'll find
Whispersync feature on Kindle Fire makes reading easier, as you could switch back and forth between devices and free Kindle reading applications.
With the latest
kindle software upgrades, and the new
kindles, they will provide seamless backup / archiving for all your stuff on AWS — not just stuff bought from Amazon (they didn't cover this well at the announcement, but others over at mobileread.com have done some code spelunking, and it appears that the new
whispersync facilities will do this — look at the new «manage my
kindle» page).
All of these get synced — through
WhisperSync — to Amazon, so if you have multiple
Kindles, or like me a Kindle, Kindle apps on phone and tablet, and the web app, all of the above will know those things.
For those readers who want to take advantage of the
WhisperSync capability of their
Kindles, I Wish... is still available at Amazon.com for $ 2.99.
Like its sister devices, the Spanish language and Italian language
Kindles incorporate
WhisperSync and «Buy Once, Read Anywhere» cloud capabilities, hold up to 1,400 titles, and have a typical one - month battery life.
The new Kindle app offers the features customers love about Kindle, including
Whispersync technology which automatically syncs a customer's last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of their
Kindles and Kindle apps.
Amazon's Steve Kessel, senior vice president of digital media, the group behind the Kindle, said
Whispersync will mean a user can «read a book across multiple
Kindles and mobile devices,» which means it will work across multiple networks as well.
Amazon's
Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your full library of books, bookmarks, last page read, highlights and annotations across all of your
Kindles and Kindle apps so you never lose your place or are without your reading.