Torn between reading an e-book and listening to a spoken version? Amazon Audible presents a clever solution that it calls immersive reading.
Immersive Reading syncs Kindle eBooks with Audible audiobooks with a new “read and listen” feature.
This new feature allows customers who have audiobooks and e-books in their Audible and Kindle libraries to watch them along with synchronized, highlighted text for a seamless and best-in-class experience.
This feature automatically works with the Audible app, which presents a “read and listen” mode when a customer has both an audiobook and an e-book purchased.
While Amazon also supports a feature called Whispersync for Voice, which saves progress between e-books and audio versions, the new “read and listen” mode allows customers to experience a title both ways without having to choose between formats.
“Audible automatically identifies which e-books in a user’s Kindle library have matching audiobooks,” Amazon says, “and a dedicated library filter displays all their available titles in one place without having to search.”
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