Listening to audiobooks is a good way to kill boring time, especially when you are using your hands to do other things. And for some people who are afflicted by insomnia problems, they can get better sleep with the help of audiobooks.
Using Audible to listen to audiobooks is the choice of a multitude of audiobook listeners. Audible has been set up for 23 years. Audible owns a large number of audiobooks with different categories and even various languages, but it just supports limited devices, like smartphones, iPad, Fire tablets, PC, MP3 Players. Among them, Fire tablets are regarded as one of the best devices for Audible books for their reasonable price and other various features. How to listen to Audible on Fire tablets? You have 2 methods.
Part 1. Play Audible audiobooks on Fire tablets with the official way
Since Fire tablets support Audible, you can play your audiobooks with the Audible app on your Fire tablet. But for the different operating systems, the methods to play Audible audiobooks are different.
For FireOS 4 and earlier:
step 1. Open the Audible app.
step 2. Choose the All option.
step 3. Select an audiobook you like and tap on the cover to download it.
step 4. Tap the Downloaded button to find your audiobooks.
For FireOS 5 and later:
step 1. Open the Audible app.
step 2. Choose the Menu button, which is located on the top part of this app.
step 3. Select the Library option.
step 4. Choose an audiobook you like and tap on the cover to download it.
step 5. Tap the All or the Downloaded button to find your audiobooks.
A small introduction for the player screen
After you find your audiobooks, you will go to the player screen. Use the orders below to play them.
1. Play: You can click this button to start playing your audiobook.
2. Pause: You can pause the audiobook you are playing with it.
3. Set Sleep Timer: When you want to go to sleep, you can use it to set a time and it will stop playing automatically.
4. Chapter Navigation: This is a useful feature. With it, you can arrive at any chapter you want quickly.
5. Rewind 30 Seconds: With it, you can rewind the audiobook by 30 seconds.
6. Create Bookmark: Mark where you stop and you can find it quickly next time.
Part 2. Play Audible audiobooks on Fire tablets without the Audible app
With the method above, you need to download and install Audible on your Fire tablet. There is another method to stream Audible audiobooks on Fire tablets, which do not need you to install Audible on your tablet.
You just need to convert Audible AA/AAX to MP3 or others. To do this, it is necessary to get an Audible converter. Here I suggest the ViWizard Audible AA/AAX Converter. It can convert Audible AA/AAX audiobooks to common formats with 100X faster speed. It is capable of converting audiobooks to MP3, M4A, M4B, FLAC, AAC, and other formats frequently seen. You can select the Lossless option when you want to keep the 100% quality of the original audiobooks. And it can keep the ID3 tags and split the chapters for you. You do not need to authorize the iTunes account or install the Audible app on your Fire tablet. You just need to download Audible files on your PC. Now you can download and install this converter. You can choose Mac or Windows version.
Main Features of ViWizard Audible Converter
- Convert Audible AAX/AA audiobooks to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, etc.
- Split large audiobooks into small clips by chapters
- Keep 100% lossless quality
- Convert Audible audiobooks at incredibly 100X speed
This is a brief guide for how to use ViWizard to convert Audible audiobooks. There are only 3 steps.
Step 1Import audibooks to ViWizard
Launch ViWizard Audible Converter. Click the Add file button to load AAX/AA files. An easier way is to drag the files directly to the area of this software from your computer.
Step 2 Choose the target format
Click the Format button and the MP3 option. You can also adjust the codec, channel, and others of the output MP3 files here. Click the OK button.
Step 3 Convert audiobooks
Just click the Convert button to convert your audiobooks to your Fire tablet and wait for a few seconds. Click the Converted button to find your converted audio files.
Summary
Actually, it is easy to listen to Audible audiobooks on Fire tablets since Fire tablets support Audible. You have various choices. However, for those devices that do not support Audible such as Samsung TV, PS4, the only selection is converting Audible audiobooks with an Audible converter. But I still recommend you to choose to use the converter. The advantage of this choice is obvious. You are not limited by the Audible so that you can transfer your audiobooks to other devices or share with friends freely.
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Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.