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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Really? When did they add that function? It's news to me—good news indeed.
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Keyboard has also supported download from Audible even before Kindle Touch shipped.
There are a couple of basic problems Kindle's Audible support, IMO:
1. no way to cancel a lengthy download, short of restart. This is especially problematic with Touch, since a stray touch can easily initiate download from Archived Items (it doesn't even check to see if there's enough space first). I always try to leave the Archived Items 'filter' set to show 'Books' or 'Docs' rather than 'All Items', then switch to 'Audible' when I want something there.
2. no way to choose the more compact format '4' for wireless download. It's doubtful that you can even tell the difference between '4' and 'enhanced' with Kindle's audio, and 'enhanced' is twice as big (twice as long to download, more storage required). It is just dumb dumb dumb. You have to side-load '4' if you want to save space, and often that's split into parts, which has its tradeoffs.
I've sent feedback to Amazon about this but it's obviously a low priority, and involves different teams to address. I don't use Audible feature much because I use my iPod Touch. The iOS (or Android) app has more features as well (bookmarks, speed variation).
Of course Fire is better: you can listen to the audiobook and follow along in the text at the same time (if you have both formats). Too bad Kindle doesn't let you play audiobooks in 'background' as it will for MP3.