How to Enjoy Audiobook Content on Amazon’s Kindle: A Five-Step Guide

5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

Posted by Iris Yan on 5/13/2024 1:58:15 PM.

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Kindle Fire is a tablet running on Amazon-modified Android OS. It not only does everything an Android tablet is supposed to do, but also allows you to read eBooks and listen to audiobooks. You may find that reading ebooks on Kindle Fire will drain their eyes but it is comfortable to read ebooks on Kindle e-Ink device. As reading Kindle eBooks on Kindle Fire is not a good option, how about listening to audiobooks on Kindle Fire? Listening to audiobooks on Kindle Fire will not drain your eyes, but you can listen to audible books while doing some daily work. In this article, I will introduce five methods to listen to audiobooks on Kindle Fire to help you liberate your eyes. If you are interested in listening audiobooks on kindle and kindle app, please read how to listen to audiobooks on Kindle .

1Listen to Audible Audiobooks Directly on Kindle Fire
2Listen to Audiobook via Immersion Reading on Kindle Fire
3Listen to Audiobook via Apps Installed on Kindle Fire
4Listen to Audiobooks Copied from Computer on Kindle Fire
5Listen to Audiobooks Online on Kindle Fire

Method 1. Listen to Audible Audiobooks Directly on Kindle Fire

Situation 1: Purchase your Audible Audiobooks via Amazon account

As Kindle Fire is developed by Amazon company, it is also can be registered with the Amazon account. Once Kindle Fire has been registered with your amazon account, all Audible audiobooks purchased through your Amazon account will be displayed on your Kindle Fire.

How to listen to Audible audiobooks on Kindle Fire? Below are detailed steps.

Step 1. Open the Kindle Fire, you will find “Audiobooks” tab on the top bar of the home screen. All purchased audiobooks will be showed in the library when you tap “Audiobooks”. If you want to buy a new audible audiobooks, just click ”store” at the top right to go to the store. You can type the book title in the search bar to find the book you want to buy, or just select one book from the “AUDUIBLE BEST SELLERS”. Then tap the title of the book and pay for this book.

Step 2. Once the book has been successfully purchased, tap the “library” at the top right corner, all purchased Audible books will be displayed on cloud. Tap the title of the audiobook to download it. After the downloading has finished, you are able to listen to the audiobook even when your device is not connect to the wireless network.

Next time when you want to listen to an audiobook, tap “Audiobooks” from the home screen, and then tap the book title, it will start from the place where the last time you stop listening.

Situation 2: Purchase your Audible audiobooks via Audible account

If you already have an Audible account which is different from your Amazon account, your purchased audiobooks will not be shown in your Audiobooks library on your Kindle Fire. You need to link your Audible account to your Amazon account in this case.

Step 1. Go to Audible.com and sign in using your existing Audible account. There will be hi, username at the top of the website. Select the “ Account Details” from the drop-down list of hi, username.

Step 2. Click on NEW: Connect your Amazon account to Audible! to go to another page to merge your account.

Step 3. Enter your Audible passwords, and click next step. Then enter your Amazon username and passwords and click on “_next step_”.

Step 4. Select or enter a credit/debit card to use as your default card on Audible and click on” **finish**”.

Until now, your Audible and Amazon account has been linked together successfully. And then when you open your Kindle Fire, you will find all your purchased Audible books will be showed in library of Audiobooks on Kindle fire. Then you can follow instructions of the situation 1 to listen the audiobooks.

Note: When your Audible account has been merged with your Amazon account successfully, your old Audible username will no longer work. So you will access your Audible account with your Amazon credentials.

Bonus Tip

One important thing to be mentioned about Audible books is that all Audible books are protected by DRM scheme. So all your downloaded Audible file will be in Audible AAX or AAXC format which means you are not able to play Audible file on many mainstream mp3 player. In order to enjoy Audible on any player, you can convert Audible to MP3 with Epubor Audible Converter .

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Method 2. Listen to Audiobook via Immersion Reading on Kindle Fire

Thanks for Amazon’s Whispersync for voice function and immersion reading feature , you are allowed to switch seamlessly between reading and listening. Before switching from Kindle books to audiobooks, you need to buy both Kindle eBooks as well as audiobooks.

Step 1. Add narration to Kindle eBooks

Tap the Books app to open the Kindle store on Kindle Fire and search the name of the eBook you are trying to find the audio book. Tap the eBook you purchased from the result. You will see “add narration for $” in the description page, and just click it to buy the audio edition of this book.

Step 2. Switch between reading and listening

Tap “Books” app on Kindle Fire, you will see all purchased books in the Library. Click the book title to start the reading. Since you’ve already have purchased the audio edition, just tap the highlighted area to download the audiobook. Once it has been downloaded successfully, tap the play icon to start the listening. To return your book reading, just tap on the overflow menu and then “immersion reading”.

Now you can link your Kindle eBook to your Audible audiobooks, switching back and forth between listening and reading.

Note To use this Immersion Reading feature, you have to make sure Text to Speech is turned off. To turn off Text to Speech feature, you have to tap the View menu , then select more settings, and then turn off Text to Speech.

Method 3. Listen to Audiobook via Apps installed on Kindle Fire

Although we can listen to audiobooks on Kindle Fire without extra audiobook player, but there are still many good apps which provide free audiobooks to download or listen online. There is already an article on our site has introduced 7 Best Audiobook Player Apps for Android . If you are interesting in installing another audiobook player for your Kindle Fire than its original audiobooks, you may consider these powerful apps.

One of the famous apps is OverDrive apps which allow you borrow and enjoy audiobooks from your library on your Kindle Fire. You can follow the below steps to listen to audiobooks via this app.

Step 1. Download the OverDrive app from here and install it to your Kindle Fire.

Step 2. Once it has been installed successfully, you can sign in(or sign up) using your library card, facebook or a OverDrive account. If you’re under 13, you can use one of the under-13 sign-in options .

Step 3. When you log in the OverDrive, tap top left conor to open the menu, then click “manage libraries”. Then tap “+” to search your library by name, city or postal code. Once the library has been added, you can browse it to check whether this is any audiobook you want to listen to. If you find an audiobook available to borrow, just tap “borrow” and then enter your library card number to sign in. Once you log in successfully, check “download” under the book title on your bookshelf.

Step 4. When this borrowed audiobook has been download successfully, you can tap the book to listen to this book on your Kindle Fire. To return this book, you can tap the plus symbol to the right of the audiobook in your bookshelf.

Bonus Tips: If you are looking for ways to borrow and listen to free audiobooks from OverDrive on any device, you can read How to Borrow and Listen to OverDrive Audiobooks for a complete guide.

Method 4. Listen to Audiobooks Copied from Computer on Kindle Fire

Beyond Audible, there are also many wonderful websites where you can download free audiobooks, such as LibriVox, Storynory, Padiobooks and so on. To find more websites about downloading the free audiobooks, here are best 10 sites to download free audio books. Once you have downloaded audiobooks from these sites, you can transfer them to you Kindle Fire via USB Cable.

Connect your Kindle Fire with you computer via USB cable. Then copy the downloaded audiobooks to the documents or music folder of your Kindle Fire. Usually, the downloaded audiobooks are in MP3 form and DRM free. Since the Audiobooks app on Kindle Fire will only play audiobooks in audible format from Audible, the audiobooks downloaded from other websites are mostly in MP3 format and will not be displayed on Audiobooks app. You will find them in the “music” tab on your Kindle Fire. Just click the title of the audiobook to play it.

Method 5. Listen to Audiobooks Online on Kindle Fire

There are many websites provide free audiobooks which allow you listen to the audiobook online. 50+ Sites for Free Audio Books Online Listen without Downloading introduces more than 50 best websites offering online listening service. You can open these websites with the browser on your Kindle Fire and then click the title of the audiobook you want to listen to and play them on Kindle fire web browser. You can listen to the audiobook anytime when your internet is available. You need to keep you internet connected if you are trying to using this method.

Conclusion

These are five methods about how to listen to audiobooks on Kindle Fire. If you have more ways to listen to audiobooks on Kindle fire, please share with us in the comments.

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16 Comments

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Joselyn

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

01/9/2018 02:48:01

Just wanted to know, if I use the 4th method when I pause the audiobook will it play from were I left it next time?

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Epubor

Re:Joselyn

01/10/2018 10:15:44

It is related to the player you used to play the audiobook~ You can just have a try.

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Paul

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

03/29/2019 03:41:05

How about books that I just copied from audible and put them on a flash drive?

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Epubor

Re:Paul

04/1/2019 17:20:50

All audible books are protect with DRM, so you can not listen to these audible books if you do not remove the drm from it. Epubor audible converter (https://tools.techidaily.com/epubor/audible-converter/ ) can help you remove audible drm and convert audible to mp3. Then you can play the audible file at mp3 supported player.

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John

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

05/13/2019 22:43:33

How can audible books be accessed on Fire10 using voice commands (visually impaired user)

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John

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

05/13/2019 22:44:11

How can audible books be accessed on Fire10 using voice commands (visually impaired user)

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Epubor

Re:John

07/3/2019 16:51:08

Sorry for the late reply. You can listen to your audible books by simply saying, “Alexa, play the audiobook” followed by the title.

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Penny

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

12/27/2019 05:55:31

No use I just want to know how to start and stop listening to my Audible book

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Joe Speight

Re:Penny

08/4/2023 07:12:11

will kindle fire work with my I-POD ? 2009 model

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Grace

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

07/21/2020 08:23:55

Can someone tell me if I can listen to my audio books using headphones on a Fire 10?

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Epubor

Re:Grace

07/21/2020 09:05:54

Sure, you can listen to audible audiobooks via headphone.

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Karen

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

12/27/2020 08:20:02

12/26/2020

Happy holidays! I hope you can help! Yesterday, we gave our son for Xmas a Fire HD8. He has an Audible account and was synching his account (on his iphone11) with this gift. He was able to do that but noticed that the highlight feature (or is that the bookmark) cannot be turned off on the tablet. He is able to do that on his phone.

We don’t want to have to return this tablet…..please help! Thanks in advance

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Epubor

Re:Karen

12/29/2020 16:17:45

Thank you for your comments. Do you mean you want to turn on the highlight feature on kindle fire?

Please read this article https://epubor.com/kindle-tips-how-to-turn-off-kindle-highlight.html#part2 to turn on/off kindle popular highlights on kindle fire.

Have a nice day.

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Leeann

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

02/10/2021 22:19:06

How do I listen to a book with Audible and play games at the same time. Every time I open a game the book shuts off. Please help. Thanks

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Epubor

Re:Leeann

02/18/2021 11:26:09

Thank you for asking. We are sorry to inform you that we cannot help with this issue. This may be caused by the kindle fire itself. You may contact Amazon customer support to get this issue fixed.
Have a nice day!

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Kate Devonshire

Re:5 Ways to Listen to Audiobooks on Kindle Fire

01/4/2022 20:50:50

I have Amazon audible books but would also like to read them how can I do this? my Amazon tablet is 7th generation

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