![]() ![]() If you're trying to sell/trade your Fire, please refrain from posting in this subreddit. Please follow proper reddiquette and abide by the subreddit rules.īe generous with upvotes! They are free, after all.Īlso, avoid submitting images that are just text (this includes rage comics and meme pics) or off-topic content and nsfw posts as they'll just be deleted by mods or caught by reddits spam filter. Even if you don’t care for audiobooks, the storage management options are worth it alone - especially if you regularly receive periodicals, or have Instapaper send articles to your Kindle.Please remember to include which Fire you have when asking questions! A subreddit for Amazon Fire tablets It’s nice and quick, and a great way to clean up your overflowing samples library. You just tap a checkbox next to all the times you want to remove, and then tap the Remove button. Manual Removal lets you browse your individual files by type (books, Audible, periodicals, personal documents, samples, and “others”), and delete them. Quick Archive lets you remove any content that hasn’t been opened in the last one, three, six, or twelve months, with one tap. To find them, dig into Settings>Device Options>Advanced Options>Storage Management, and choose either Manual Removal or Quick Archive. Obviously, if you’re dealing with audiobooks weighing multiple hundreds of megabytes, then this is also essential. This isn’t very exciting, but it makes deleting old content much less of a chore. This firmware update also brings long-needed storage management features. Any Bluetooth headphones or speakers will work, and the pairing process is the same. On the other hand, you don’t have to use AirPods. The audio quality will be better, the iPhone is more portable, and you can use the AirPods’ tap gestures to pause and skip the audio. And that means that you can use the Audible app on your iPhone to latent to Audiobooks. If you have a set of AirPods, then it is almost certain that you also have an iPad or iPhone. The book I tested on my Kindle certainly didn’t sound as good as Audible books I’ve listened to on my iPhone. It’s possible that, to go easy on the Kindle’s limited storage space, a low-quality version is downloaded. ![]() In my testing, the audio quality isn’t great. The big downside here is that you have to have purchased both the audio and text versions of a book to use this. Or you can go the other way, temporarily switching to audio when you’re doing the dishes. If you’re primarily an audiobook listener, in the car or the kitchen, say, then you can switch to words next time you’re in a coffee shop, for example. This is a very neat feature that lets you switch between audio and written versions, pretty seamlessly. You don’t have to think about it - it just works. This is where a written Kindle title is paired with an audio version, and the two stay in sync. One neat feature of Audible on the Kindle is called Audio Companions. ![]() Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Audible sync Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of MacĪs is playback speed: Try 2.75x if you’re feeling saucy. Here’s volume: Kindle Oasis’ volume control. It’s pretty self explanatory, so lets just seem some more pictures of the submenus. To listen to an audiobook, just tap it, and you’ll see the following new playback screen: The new Kindle Audible playback screen. If you have previously purchased any audiobooks from Audible or Amazon, they’ll show up here. Audible is the Amazon-owned company that makes and sells audiobooks. ![]() To get there, tap My Library on the home screen, and then filter the list using the drop-down menu second from the right. There’s a new section in your Kindle’s library to manage and open Audiobooks. Done! Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac New Audible section If all goes well, your AirPods should appear in on the Kindle’s screen. Then, open your AirPods’s case, and press and hold the button on the back until the LED inside the AirPods case pulses white. You’ll see this panel: Here’s the Bluetooth pairing panel. Tap Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, switch Bluetooth on if it isn’t already, then tap Bluetooth Devices. First, enter the Kindle Oasis‘ settings by tapping the Settings cog on the home screen, then tapping the All Settings cog on the subsequent screen. ![]()
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