Thread: HDX Latest Fire HDX upgrade brings audible simiulation to the WORD.
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Old 11-22-2013, 09:00 PM   #1
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Latest Fire HDX upgrade brings audible simiulation to the WORD.
After the latest Kindle Fire HDX 2013 firmware upgrade, one can tap any word on a page of an eBook and a menu appears showing a right pointing arrow. Tap the arrow and the HDX starts reading to you from that very word. Voices are selectable elsewhere on the HDX.

Close the Kindle cover and the reading continues. Open the cover and the location page is shown and the reading stops.

Thus, the new firmware makes Audio Books OBSOLETE. There is no need to buy them as extra add-ons anymore.

I was reading an eBook, started the audio, closed the cover and spent an hour doing other things while the eBook was being read to me as I carried the closed HDX around placing it on tables as I worked.

Then I opened the cover at my desk and was able to continue reading from where the audio left off.

For folks with lots of daily tasks this new feature allows them to get more reading done while taking care of more important matters.
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