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The Kindle app’s user interface is godforsaken garbage designed to get you to buy more books and that’s it. I use this all the time for the books that I can’t get off of the (exceptionally lacking) store. epub from the web and drop it into books it is uploaded and synced to all your devices no problem. This makes it easier to manage the books since you don’t necessarily need Calibre. While Apple Books is DRM’d (and you can’t remove it since Sierra), it will accept any. Amazon uses proprietary formats for their books from their store. It is extremely good at some things and extremely bad at others. I have hundreds of purchased books there. I read everything in there - fiction, nonfiction, textbooks, graphic novels, manga, etc. It makes me incredibly happy and sad at the same time to see all these comments. I meant I use the kindle app on iOS and MacOS. I like staying within Apple whenever possible so it's a let down.Įdit: I don’t own a kindle device. Unfortunately, though, this is not available within Apple Books, it is only available on Amazon Kindle and Audible. I no longer have to search for my place when transitioning from text to audio and back. It seamlessly picked up where I had left off in the Kindle text version! Going back to the text will also automatically take me to where I left off during my audio part. Then today I got an Amazon Prime membership and found the audiobook available in Audible.

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The free audiobook from my public library was more useful because it was indexed by chapters.Ĭurrently I had been reading I, Robot on text only in Kindle, had made some progress since a week ago when I got it. I could no longer transition from where I was reading the text to the corresponding new chapter in the Audio because all I had was a list of tracks. It was hideously worse because instead of a normal chapter index, it was arranged by 152 'tracks'. I used to wonder, 'if only there was an app that did this seamlessly.'įor my next book, Foundation by Asimov, I purchased the Apple Books audiobook to try it out. To transition back to text after I'm done driving, I can listen to the last phrase of the audio and search for it on the text version to find my place. With Libby, an app that allows me to check out audiobooks from my public library, I can transition from text to audio by first having to finish the chapter on text then looking up the next chapter in the audiobook version.

Whenever I stop driving, I prefer to continue the book by switching to the text version. I drive around 130 miles a day and, during driving, I like to make progress on an ebook through audio.

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