There were all these books on my Kindle that were piling up and I wasn’t listening to them. That problem was that not every novel has an audiobook accompaniment. I would listen in the car, while doing dishes or laundry, or working out, or mundane work on the computer, gardening (practicing scales sometimes even!) – you name it, if I could listen and keep my hands occupied at the same time, I had a book on.īut I ran into a problem. I started to deeply, in a way I hadn’t before, appreciate the care that other authors put into crafting every word, every emotional phrase. I was forced to slow down and really absorb every word, as I couldn’t go back and re-listen to a certain phrase or paragraph if my hands were busy and I’d missed it. The Kingfountain series was for me the perfect introduction into the world of audiobooks. I’m not reading anything at all, otherwise.”Īs it happened, in late 2018, I’d stumbled across the Kingfountain series by Jeff Wheeler, whose books in the KindleUnlimited program all have the whispersync audiobook feature (meaning that one can listen to the audio recording without having to have audible). But during college and after, I found that that dedicated hour or three was constantly being filled up by other things – writing, music, work, so I thought “What could it hurt? I might as well listen to a book and get two things done at once, even if it’s slower than reading it would be. I’ve always been able to read much faster than I can listen, and I always felt I would be wasting time by listening to books instead of sitting down for a dedicated hour or three.

(As opposed, to say, fanfiction, where I’m already attached to the worlds and characters I’m reading about.)īut early last year I was bound and determined to read more than one original work a year, so I set my Goodreads reading goal to 50 books, hopped on Twitter, and downloaded a varied selection of books to the Kindle app on my phone.Īt first I was reluctant to try audiobooks. Once I’ve gotten into a series, I’m fine, it’s the getting started that’s the issue. Part of that, for me, was the work of having to commit to a new world, new characters, and plots. You may recall that in my “ Top 5 Books I Read in 2019” I mentioned that I struggled to read traditionally published books during college and for a few years afterward. In this article I cover how I seriously got into audiobooks, and the solution I discovered to get my phone to read aloud to me. How to Turn any Kindle eBook into an Audiobook with this Simple iPhone Hack Hello Friends!

How to make kindle app read out loud