Comments on: Kindle and Audible.com http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/kindle-and-audiblecom/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lynne http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/kindle-and-audiblecom/comment-page-1/#comment-1040214 Lynne Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:21:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=13280#comment-1040214 So since the files on Audible are larger like you said, on average how many Audible.com books can be transferred to the Kindle 2? Obviously when they say 1500 books, they are not talking about 1500 Audible.com books. On the other hand, if it only holds around 10 books, I guess I am better off keeping the Audible content on my iPod. So since the files on Audible are larger like you said, on average how many Audible.com books can be transferred to the Kindle 2? Obviously when they say 1500 books, they are not talking about 1500 Audible.com books. On the other hand, if it only holds around 10 books, I guess I am better off keeping the Audible content on my iPod.

]]> By: Garson O'Toole http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/kindle-and-audiblecom/comment-page-1/#comment-951369 Garson O'Toole Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:12:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=13280#comment-951369 Joe Wikert said “Now if they’d just fully integrate it so that I can buy a book and it’s available to me in both the written and audio format, all for one price…” That would be great. Amazon could combine Audible and the Kindle to create an extraordinary service. Imagine if the text shown on the Kindle display was fully synchronized with the audio of a top-notch human narrator. Envision the Kindle scroll wheel used to select any place in the text with narration beginning at the designated spot. People who are dyslexic and people who are visually impaired could benefit. An individual who wants to switch between listening to a narrator while driving and reading the same book without audio on the Kindle display could benefit. The Sony Reader, Netbooks, PCs and some other hardware systems that can display text and play MP3s could also support synchronized text and audio. The Daisy (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) Consortium has already developed relevant standards. Joe Wikert said “Now if they’d just fully integrate it so that I can buy a book and it’s available to me in both the written and audio format, all for one price…”

That would be great. Amazon could combine Audible and the Kindle to create an extraordinary service. Imagine if the text shown on the Kindle display was fully synchronized with the audio of a top-notch human narrator. Envision the Kindle scroll wheel used to select any place in the text with narration beginning at the designated spot.

People who are dyslexic and people who are visually impaired could benefit. An individual who wants to switch between listening to a narrator while driving and reading the same book without audio on the Kindle display could benefit.

The Sony Reader, Netbooks, PCs and some other hardware systems that can display text and play MP3s could also support synchronized text and audio. The Daisy (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) Consortium has already developed relevant standards.

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