Remove your books from the shelves
Do you love to read? Have you bought book after book only to have them pile up, filling book shelves to the max and leaving you little room for more new books? The best new invention to help further the sale of audiobooks everywhere is amazon kindle.
This new device (released in November of 2007) can download text in a variety of formats from Amazon and other places. The books or documents can be read on the screen of the kindle, or they can be listened to on the device.Audiobooks are the most popular type of file that are used on the device.
Amazon has created their own file format for the device (AZW). However, it can also read .txt files and some .pdf files (although .pdf files are not fully supported at this time). More than 90,000 books are now available, including more than 90 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers. One can read fiction or non-fiction books as well as everything from best sellers to more obscure titles.
While the Kindle sold out within a matter of days since its launch, skeptics wonder whether the Kindle’s price is still too high. Amazon Kindle retails for $399.
Another benefit of Amazons Kindle in combination with audio books is that they can play a vital role in developing fluency and comprehensions skills of children. If you let your kid hear the audiobook and follow along in the Kindle ebook version it will build decoding skills and vocabulary that are essential for improving reading accuracy and rates.
One of the amazing parts of this device is the fact that Amazon has a back-up system that keep all of a users previously bought files on hand. So, should the device malfunction or should the user run out of room, all of the files are still accessible.
NoPaperback is the blog of Audado.com. Audado offers over 5,000 downloadable audio books and spoken word material Books are organized by categories like biography, fiction, history, humor, religion, and self help.
- Ruben Alvarez