App Update Brings Audible Audiobooks to Kindle

By Dianna Dilworth 

kindleappaudioAmazon has updated its Kindle app for iOS devices bringing integration with Audible audiobooks.

The app now allows readers to access more than 45,000 Kindle/Audile.com book pairs from directly within the Kindle app.  Previously a reader would have to launch the Audible.com app in order to listen tothe audiobook.

Whispersync for Voice now automatically syncs a reader’s progress between reading progress between the Audible and Kindle versions of a book. In addition, the app now allows users to read and listen to a Kindle book at the same time.

The Version 4.3 update also brings with it the ability for  students to search for terms in X-Ray for textbooks and then tap a page thumbnail in the X-Ray feature to find the term highlighted in the page of the book.