Thread: Amazon announces new 7" waterproof Oasis with 32GB storage option
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Old 10-11-2017, 12:50 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
It seems (at least initially) it does not support Immersion Reading (synchronized text + audiobook playback), or at least there’s no mention of it. Will it at least play in background so you can read along? Probably not. The Audible player on previous Kindles was horrible, and hard to imagine even an improved player for Kindle would be preferred to the smartphone app.
Amazon says it is "seamless" to hope back and forth between audiobook and ebook. (syncing works.) This video seems to confirm that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=qffCVvuNRd8
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