How to read and listen to audiobooks with only one device

Do you love to read? Have you bought book after book only to have them pile up, filling book shelves to the max and leaving you little room for more new books? The best new invention to help further the sale of audiobooks everywhere is amazon kindle.

This new device (released in November of 2007) can download text in a variety of formats from Amazon and other places. The ebooks or documents can be read on the screen of the kindle, or they can be listened to on the device. The Kindle is Audible ready, which has functionality that enhances the audio book experience..

Amazon has created their own file format for the device (AZW). However, it can also read .txt files and some .pdf files (although .pdf files are not fully supported at this time). More than 90,000 books are now available, including more than 90 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers. One can read fiction or non-fiction books as well as everything from best sellers to more obscure titles.

The amazon kindle retails for approximately $399. However, many people believe that the price will fall as demand grows and the technology becomes just a bit older. Still, the Kindle is on the cutting edge of technology for those who regularly buy and listen to e-books and audiobooks.

Another benefit of Amazons Kindle in combination with downloadable audiobooks is that they can play a vital role in developing fluency and comprehensions skills of children. If you let your kid hear the audiobook and follow along in the Kindle ebook version it will build decoding skills and vocabulary that are essential for improving reading accuracy and rates.

The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindle will be the device that introduces ebooks and audiobooks to many people.

NoPaperback is the blog of Audado.com. Audado offers over 5,000 downloadable audio books and spoken word material Books are organized by categories like biography, fiction, history, humor, religion, and self help.

- Ruben Alvarez

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