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If you own a Kindle Fire and own a few books on it, you've probably noticed a few books you buy might have the professional narration feature enabled for the particular book. Yeah, you can listen to the first few minutes of the book's professional narration for free, but that's just it. Sometimes, the first few minutes are not even close to what a normal book would take. After purchasing, it looks tough to connect the two together. This article can give you these details, to get this book's professional narration enabled for the book.
Steps
1Purchase the Kindle version of the book. Don't buy the Audible audio-book version first (not only can you save money, but you'll also not be able to connect the two together).
2Visit the very beginning of the book (where it deposited you at, when you first opened the book on your device) and begin to play the professional narration. It'll give you a button called "Add professional narration" which is only shown when the narration is being played.Advertisement
3Click the "Add professional narration" button. If it has one, good! If not, sorry, no professional narration for this book here yet.
4Skim through the Audiobook buying page/link it deposits you at. You find that the book page it deposits you at is the Audible.com audiobook page with a MUCH LOWER price (prices are more than 3/4 less the price of what it would be worth if you were purchasing the audiobook before the book itself).
5Tap the "Buy for $x or x cents" button (however it's called), to make the purchase of the linked book. It'll only take you a second or two to do.
6Get back to the Carousel page on your device (home screen).
7Download the complete audiobook that has already installed it's "app-like button" on the Carousel. Hold down on the book's icon, and tap "Download". Once it displays a "percent progress bookmark like icon", you know you've completely downloaded the audiobook.- At this point, yeah, it's on your device, but your book won't recognize it as their being the purchased one on your device, and will tell you "Professional narration added. Preparing to download."
8Sync your device to your account. Open the drop-down notifications bar from the top of the screen, and select "Sync."
9Go back into your normal Kindle paper-type digital copy of the Book. You should now see those "Add professional narration(sample)" messages go away, and a Play/Pause button appear, along with the words "Preparing to download" have disappeared. Now, you can listen to the complete narration of the book from beginning to end.Advertisement
Community Q&A
- QuestionIs this a one-time buy to read books that are audio-available, or do I have to pay each time I download a book?
Community AnswerYou have to pay for each audiobook separately.
Warnings
- Not all Kindle devices have the professional narration feature enabled. The Paperwhite and Kindle Fire devices all have it, but almost nothing else; so consider yourself lucky if you have one that has these files working on your device.Thanks
- Make sure both the book and the audiobook are both downloaded to your device, until you'd like to put it away. Otherwise, you'll be stuck using the smaller temporary sample professional narration until you download the Audible audiobook to your device again.Thanks
- Not all books have the Professional narration feature. Nearly 1 out of every 6-7 books on your Kindle version should/will have the Professional narration version available for download.Thanks
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