11-10-2010, 04:20 PM | #1 |
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I have added an audio book to the audible folder in Kindle 3. My question: how can I get the Kindle to play the audio book and at the same time have the actual book opened so that I can read along? (I know it might sound weird, but I like reading along with an audio book. Also, I know the Kindle has voicing capabilities, but I don't like the computer sounding voice).
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11-10-2010, 05:58 PM | #2 |
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You can't. It's either an audio book, or a regular book. The controls have to be up on the screen for the audio book, so you couldn't have both that, and the text.
The only workaround is to put the audio book into mp3 files, and put them in the music folder in the order you want to hear them. They will play like background music, but you can't control it other than the stop/start controls for background music. |
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11-10-2010, 06:10 PM | #3 |
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It amazes me that no one has tried using the combined technology of ebook readers with good MP3 player controls for language learning. Do I get to patent this idea?
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11-10-2010, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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There is software that combines the two. Trying to coordinate two completely unrelated files, from different sources, is virtually impossible. What I mean is, there is nothing in the .mp3 (or whatever) file to mark words so that the same words could be found in the (also unmarked) ebook file.
If the files were encoded to work with each other, or clips of both were displayed together (as the software does), that's a different thing, and perfectly possible. |
11-11-2010, 05:14 AM | #5 |
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I have both a Audible account and Amazon account. I followed the steps to merge both accounts.
When I synced my Kindle 3 it synced both me ebooks and Audible books. Please try this link. http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answ...tail/a_id/3901 Last edited by dasaint; 11-11-2010 at 05:16 AM. |
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Perhaps some day Amazon will combine the two functions on Kindle in such a way that you can do it without two devices. But for now, that is not possible. |
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