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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It plays music from your Amazon cloud, no?
Nothing stops you from uploading audiobook mp3s to the cloud.
Plenty of those in the PD and from copyrighted but free (libraries and BAEN CDs, for example) and non-audible commercial audio ebooks.
Audible is the leader in digital audiobooks but not the only player.
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It's doable, but it'll cost you $25 a year to do so if you wish to store your audiobooks permanently in the cloud. To get access, the audiobooks need to be uploaded to the Music Cloud (250 songs free), which is separate from the Cloud Drive (5GB free). Unless you're willing to pay $25 a year to increase the storage to 250,000 songs, you don't have much room to store audiobooks permanently; especially since each chapter is considered a song.
I've long ago maxed out this limit with my all time favorite LPs and have no room left. I'm not willing to pay for increased storage, especially for Amazon content that's already stored free in another cloud (Audible - the bulk of my audiobooks).
If you're limiting yourself to the free storage, I don't think it's worth the time to be constantly swapping out audiobooks. It's much easier to play them on your media player and use the Echo as a bluetooth speaker.
If you're paying for the storage, remember to group the chapters of each audiobook into a playlist, and in proper sequence. Also resign yourself to playback with MP3 controls; no fancy audiobook controls.
Dedicated audiobook apps (Audible, Downpour, Nook, etc) are ideal. They'll come with free cloud storage and proper playback controls.
Overall, audiobook playback on the Echo is a bit primitive.