Amazon KNDKYBRD3G manual Listening to Audio Materials, Audiobooks

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Chapter 3 Reading on Kindle

3.8 Listening to Audio Materials

There are three types of audio materials that you can listen to on your Kindle. You can listen to audiobooks from Audible.com, transfer MP3 files from your computer to play as background music while you read, or turn on Text-to-Speech in your reading material (where allowed by the rights holder). Due to their large file size, audiobooks you purchase in the Kindle Store can only be transferred wirelessly to your Kindle using Wi-Fi. Alternatively, you can purchase and down- load audiobooks from the Kindle Store using your computer’s Internet connection and then transfer them to your Kindle using USB. (For information about transferring audiobooks or MP3 files from your computer to your Kindle, see Chapter 8.)

Audiobooks

On your Home screen, your audiobooks list the title and author, but they also have the word “audible” next to the title to indicate that they are audiobooks. To listen to one of your audio- books, select it from your Home screen. You will see a page similar to the one shown below. Kindle provides a standard set of controls that are explained below.

Progress Indicator — indicates how far you have come in the audiobook, the elapsed time, and the section you are in.

Pause/Play — pauses or plays the audiobook (there is no Stop control).

Forward 30 Seconds — moves ahead thirty seconds from the current location.

Beginning — takes you back to the beginning of the audiobook.

Previous Section — moves backwards in the audiobook to the previous section.

Back 30 Seconds — moves backwards thirty seconds from the current location.

Next Section — moves ahead to the next section in the audiobook, which is usually the next chapter.