Post by Steve on May 20, 2022 14:20:18 GMT -8
Remember when Amazon just sold books? Now they sell everything from electronics to snowshoes, and yes, they still sell books. And now they own Audible and Kindle!
Amazon is the word people think of for books. I started buying online 20 years ago when the botany books I wanted were not available in the small bookstores in town. Even a trip into Sacramento for Barnes&Noble was not always successful. I'll assume you are familiar already and so I have no special news to offer.
Kindle says "read more than 1,000,000 eBooks on Any Device!" Wow! All for $10 a month? Okay, I'll try it. The main plan is to allow you to read online, not buy! But I can't actually see the text, so I can use my Mac to select it and have it read out loud to me. But wait! It isn't downloaded, so can I treat it like any webpage and select the text online? But before I try, I knew I wanted a particular book, so I paid for the Kindle form, and now own it.
Now it's a different story. Kindle offers free reading fory $10 a month. You see at the pages in the Cloud. It sounds intriguing. As a Mac user, I needed the Kindle iOS app. I added that. Then Kindle says "Kindle for iOS is not a dedicated audiobook app but you can use it to listen to audiobook companions." I'm not sure what that means? Confession: I am using my desktop Mac wit macOS.The iOS is for iPad and iPhone, but I have not tried that. I can't see well enough to read and certainly need an audio backup.
But Kindle also says it offers an extra feature for people who are "not dedicated to audio books!" What is the extra?Whispersync, an add-on for whatever book you are reading online! It can cost up to $7.49 and works for the one book you are reading. All I know is, if I select the text on my Mac and hot the key commands to speak, the page closes. So I decided to pay $7.49 for Whispersync. That works with my one book only!
FYI, Audible offers a Listen Only! for $7.95. You get to listen to any of more than 11.000 books each month. That sound better than paying $10 for Kindle and maybe another charge for a single audio of another book.
Amazon is the word people think of for books. I started buying online 20 years ago when the botany books I wanted were not available in the small bookstores in town. Even a trip into Sacramento for Barnes&Noble was not always successful. I'll assume you are familiar already and so I have no special news to offer.
Kindle says "read more than 1,000,000 eBooks on Any Device!" Wow! All for $10 a month? Okay, I'll try it. The main plan is to allow you to read online, not buy! But I can't actually see the text, so I can use my Mac to select it and have it read out loud to me. But wait! It isn't downloaded, so can I treat it like any webpage and select the text online? But before I try, I knew I wanted a particular book, so I paid for the Kindle form, and now own it.
Now it's a different story. Kindle offers free reading fory $10 a month. You see at the pages in the Cloud. It sounds intriguing. As a Mac user, I needed the Kindle iOS app. I added that. Then Kindle says "Kindle for iOS is not a dedicated audiobook app but you can use it to listen to audiobook companions." I'm not sure what that means? Confession: I am using my desktop Mac wit macOS.The iOS is for iPad and iPhone, but I have not tried that. I can't see well enough to read and certainly need an audio backup.
But Kindle also says it offers an extra feature for people who are "not dedicated to audio books!" What is the extra?Whispersync, an add-on for whatever book you are reading online! It can cost up to $7.49 and works for the one book you are reading. All I know is, if I select the text on my Mac and hot the key commands to speak, the page closes. So I decided to pay $7.49 for Whispersync. That works with my one book only!
FYI, Audible offers a Listen Only! for $7.95. You get to listen to any of more than 11.000 books each month. That sound better than paying $10 for Kindle and maybe another charge for a single audio of another book.