Let me preface this post by noting that while I'm an editor here, I've not been terribly active in a while, so I'm not sure if this is the right forum. Forgive me if I got it wrong.
I was talking with my brother yesterday, who says he's becoming quite the ebook fiend, in addition to being a longtime audiobook fiend. He has a Kindle, and I guess he's giddily going to buy the new one.
His gripe was that should he buy both an ebook and an audiobook version of the same text, that there's no reader that syncs the two versions up. If there is, he doesn't know about it -- and he's a pretty tech-savvy guy.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about
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Say you're reading an ebook and then you want to go out to the garden and do some work and continue on with it, but this time you want to listen instead of read.
Sure, you probably could do it by chapter, say; but what he really wants is some mechanism that does it automatically. Basically, a way to sync up the audio and ebook versions in a way that the device can read.
Is this science fiction or even science wishing? Are we at the point where these readers can do this?
In short, are my bro and I totally insane?
(Okay, yea, that last bit is a softball....)