The company added audiobook features to Google Play only a few months ago, but now its added a few new features to the system that should help
make listening to audiobooks through Google a whole lot easier.
The big selling points are the four speakers, that really
make listening to audiobooks, music and videos extremely viable.
New audio platforms like Amazon Echo and Alexa and Google home
make listening to audiobooks convenient and fun.
Not exact matches
Depending on how close you live, you could have half an hour or more time
to catch up on voicemails,
listen to an
audiobook,
make voice memos for the day ahead, or just relax with some calming music.
I've been known
to sit on the lawn in the sun and
make doctor appointments, and I
listen to fun
audiobooks while driving
to pick up kids and while cleaning the house (I just
listened to A Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes and I highly recommend it).
«My number one tip for
making this a regular thing is
to listen to audiobooks,» says Gonzalez.
I've been
listening to the How not
to Die
audiobook and am
making the transition.
Get directions,
make calls and
listen to audiobooks and music — all using the built - in color touch - screen.
Get directions,
make calls and
listen to audiobooks and music — all using the built - in color touch screen.
Get directions,
make hands - free calls and
listen to audiobooks and music — all using the built - in color touch - screen.
I
make good use of the Bluetooth and usb connection features
to listen to audiobooks and stream music from my phone.
Good e-Reader has conducted a month long poll where we asked users about the
audiobook buying habits and where they tend
to listen to the purchases they have
made.
Especially I like the functions which allow
to listen audiobooks and
make notes, while you are reading a book!
Besides
making eReaders more accesible
to people who have problems with their vision, it text -
to - speech (or for that matter buying an eBook -
AudioBook combo) could very useful for people learning new languages, reading a book in their target language and
listening to it being spoken at the same time.
Capti Narrator now
makes over 50,000 free Project Gutenberg eBooks universally accessible
to anyone who needs or wants
to listen to audiobooks instead of reading eBooks from the screen.
Download a free
audiobook now and take it with you
to the gym, on your daily commute or
listen to it while you
make dinner - our library is full of memoirs, thrillers, bios and more that are certain
to entertain you while you're on - the - go.
Download a free
audiobook now and take it with you
to the gym, on your daily commute or
listen to it while you
make dinner — our library is full of memoirs, thrillers, bios and more that are certain
to entertain you while you're on - the - go.
It was illegal for sighted persons
to listen to LP
audiobooks from 1934 until 1948, because publishers and authors» unions controlling royalties and rights did not want them
made available for public sale.
Amazon recognizes this, and has used its Audible acquisition
to make it easy
to switch seamlessly between reading an e-book and
listening to an
audiobook in its Kindle apps for iOS and Android.
Nevertheless,
Audiobooks have
made a big impact on reading habits — and studies have shown that
listening to books offers many of the same benefits as reading.
I may not use
audiobooks all that much or
listen to music on my dedicated e-reader but having the ability
to do it
makes me happy.
Unfortunately, we often do not have time
to read some serious literature that
makes you think and we can
listen to audiobook, which isn't the same as mostly we are combining this activity with something else.
For many years, he
listened to music while walking the route, but one day he decided
to give an
audiobook a try — which turned out
to be a match
made in heaven.
She
listens to most of her review
audiobooks while she
makes dinner — when the books are really good, dinner is late.
In order
to make their service more accessible they are offering an unlimited amount of cloud storage so you can upload your entire
audiobook collection
to their servers and
listen to them all with one of the eStories apps.
TuneIn simply couldn't
make the economics of a subscription system work for
audiobooks, which they had
to pay a fee every time someone
listened to a specific title.
Our goal in developing the Ambling BookPlayer is
to make your
audiobook listening experience as enjoyable as possible.
We've gathered our favorite reviewers
to learn how they choose which
audiobooks make their
listen lists.
Overall, this
makes the Kindle Fire HD the # 1 choice if
listening to Audiobooks is one of the Top 4 things you'll do on a Tablet.
They've asked me
to make the novels available in text format so they can share them with their friends and family who don't
listen to podcasts or
audiobooks.
* You can aim
to make your
audiobook usable with Kindle's Whispersync, in which Kindle readers can
listen to the audio for a while, pick up reading with the Kindle for a while, and go back
to the audio, all without losing their place.
The frontlight is also very nice and even (but they can vary from one
to the next) and the added support for
audiobooks makes it handy
to switch back and forth between reading and
listening.
I
make no apologies, I am an Apple junkie and read my ebooks on a Macbook and
listen to my
audiobooks on a ipod, but I will criticise if I feel its earned.
The more customers
listen to your
audiobook, the more money you
make, and the more subscribers a service has, the bigger the payout pool is.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, performed by Rosamund Pike I've begun
to make better use of my Audible membership, and my current
listen is the Pride and Prejudice
audiobook performed by actress Rosamund Pike.
With those results, we have created an overview of today's
audiobook listeners: who they are, where and how they're
making their purchases, and what they're
listening to.
There's a very real sense of nostalgia and retro feel that
makes it easy
to think you're
listening to a museum
audiobook with samples from the era.
That changed today with the actual, official, guaranteed - real - this - time launch of Audible support for Sonos speakers,
making it easy for users of both products
to listen to their
audiobooks through their sound system.
Recently, users have seen some useful features of Alexa:
listen to audiobooks on Amazon Alexa, customize Alexa wake word,
make a phone call and send message with Alexa, set alarms and timers on Echo using Alexa etc..
It's just
making the most of your time (i.e.
listening to the podcasts /
audiobooks rather than
listening to music).