Fix regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be excluded from the calibre source bundle.Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages.Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards.When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just leading quotes.macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry.Comments editor: Add a shortcut for 'Paste and match style' (Ctrl+Shift+v).Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details.Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover.This means even though the Kindle has an audiobook player and Bluetooth, Amazon has not unlocked it for most countries due to licensing issues, sideloading content would give someone something else to do on their Kindle, aside from just reading ebooks.Release: 6.14.1 New features Should Amazon allow users to download audiobooks and sideload them too? The Audible store is only in select markets, and not all countries. Alternatively you can convert an EPUB to a Kindle friendly format using a convertor such as Calibre. You can download them online in the MOBI or AZW formats. m4b files without DRM and not encrypted with your own key.Īmazon has always supported sideloading in your Kindle books. This is because most of these formats are basically encoded. There are various online converters that will change an MP3 to popular Audible formats, but when you sideload them on your Kindle, the player doesn’t recognize them. The vast majority of audiobooks that you download online are in MP3. Should Amazon let users sideload in their own audiobooks, like they let people do with ebooks in various Kindle friendly formats?Īudible audiobooks have their own proprietary formats called Format 4, AAX, AAX+ and AAXC, although they soon we only delivering downloads in an uncrackable format. Amazon does not let you sideload in your own audiobook collection, because the audiobook player only recognizes Audible books. There is an Audible shop, next to the Kindle store, where a wide selection of audio content is available.

All of the current and previous generation models have an audiobook player and you can listen to them with a pair of wireless headphones. A couple of years ago Amazon incorporated Audible audiobooks on the Amazon Kindle.

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