Now you can use the Kindle app to switch back and forth between reading a Kindle book comfortably at home and listening to the story while driving to work.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Listen to Audible audiobooks! Customers owning both the Kindle and Audible versions of a title can now listen to the audiobook right in the Kindle app. The updated Kindle app for iPhone and iPad is available on the App Store now. The update includes other new features too, including: improvements to the X-Ray reference tool for textbooks and the ability to download an entire collection with a single tap.

The best part is that you won’t be pulled out of Kindle and into the Audible app now when switching between text and audio. The audio and text versions of the book will stay in-sync, pages turn automatically, and narration includes a x2 speed mode and sleep timer option. With the updated Kindle apps, users will be able to get narrations for 45,000 Kindle books and growing as well as purchase Audible upgrades for previously purchased Amazon Kindle books ranging from $1 to $4. That feature allowed users to switch “seamlessly” between reading and listening but required users to have both the Kindle and Audible apps. The service is an extension of the Whispersync for Voice feature that Amazon recently launched.

“And the feature has gotten easier and easier to use, as this exciting integration into Kindle apps attests.” “We continue to hear from a growing number of Whispersync for Voice converts who tell us the innovation has profoundly changed the way they read-in fact, switching back and forth between reading and listening has become their preferred way of experiencing stories,” said Audible founder and CEO Donald Katz. After installing a free update landing today for the apps, users will be able to listen to Audible audio books without ever having to leave the app. Amazon announced today that it’s integrating the Audible audiobook service it purchased back in 2008 directly into the Kindle apps for both iOS and Android.

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