Amazon adds ‘read and listen’ mode to Audible app for immersion reading feature

Torn between reading an ebook and listening to the narrated version? Amazon’s Audible is introducing a clever solution that it calls immersion reading.

Immersion reading syncs up Kindle ebooks with Audible audiobooks with a new “read and listen” feature.

This new feature allows customers who have the audiobook and eBook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries to follow along with synchronized, highlighted text, delivering a seamless, best-in-class experience.

The feature works automatically with the Audible app presenting the “read and listen” mode when a customer has both the audiobook and ebook purchased.

While Amazon has also supported a feature called Whispersync for Voice that saves progress between ebooks and audio versions, the new “read and listen” mode allows customers to experience a title in both ways without choosing formats.

“Audible automatically identifies which eBooks in a user’s Kindle library have audiobook matches,” Amazon says, “and a dedicated library filter will surface all their available titles in one place, with no searching required.”

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