Using Audiobooks is very intuitive and doesn’t really require grand explanations. You’ll find the following categories on the display:
All Titles
Authors
Genres
Narrators
Languages
Most Popular
Surprise Me
My Library
This is where you start your search for interesting audio books. There’s also a Search function in the upper half of the screen that allows you to pin-point your search for a specific publication.
Once you’ve located a book via one of the categories or the search function you can click on it in order to read a synopsis of the book. There are two buttons near the bottom which allow you to either hear a sample from the book or play it back straight away. If you let the book playback immediately it automatically gets downloaded as well (a function which you can switch off – if you wish – via the menu button and Settings). The books you’ve downloaded wind up in the CrossForward folder of your SD card. You can also play them – using Astro, for instance – on your standard player, although they don’t show up in the player’s display.
The Audiobooks player is just as easy to use as the app itself. It has the usual buttons:
Play/Pause
Skip (forwards/backwards)
… as well as a button which opens up the list of chapters. The downloading process is shown at the bottom of the screen, and you can abort or restart it at any point.
My Library shows you all the audio books you’ve downloaded/listened to and lets you revisit them.
Bottom line:
If the lack of professional speakers won’t dampen your enjoyment of these audio books my guess that you’ll really enjoy this little app. It deserves its four stars for Screen & Controls because controls works like a charm. The app’s major downfall is its stability (see below for more details). As far as the quality and talent of the readers go: to each his own, I say!
NickP
Jul 12, 2012 11:53:49 AM
Crashes, so Uninstalled Samsung Galaxy S2 running stock ICS (Android 4.0) crashes when trying to play a book. Uninstalled app as useless.
Skyler
Jul 12, 2012 3:38:36 AM
Excellent The reason I gave 4 stars is because of the lack of the application saving your place in the book, not fun skipping 40 parts only to hope that's where you were. I've run into non - English narrations with an English summary, needless to say I was saddend, maybe state what language it's in. Also many book's parts cut off towards the end.
brooke
Jul 12, 2012 2:01:26 AM
Okay This app is okay but some of the accents are very irritating, and read very, very slow but only on certian books
Milagros
Jul 11, 2012 10:04:45 PM
Not working with ICS on Samsung Galaxy S II :( Used to love it, now I cannot use it anymore, will move to another app.
NinjaNoggin
Jul 11, 2012 4:59:23 PM
Fix it! Had to change to a different one because this stopped working in ICS.
Sonnycummings
Jul 11, 2012 2:54:39 PM
Reading without
David
Jul 11, 2012 12:19:51 AM
Works excellent I like it
Leilani
Jul 10, 2012 6:26:31 PM
Audio books Its a great app i used it for my summer reading !!! :)
Amber
Jul 10, 2012 3:09:38 PM
Cuts off. Every chapter is cut off. I can't even get into a story without missing two thirds of a chapter.
Katie
Jul 10, 2012 12:48:22 PM
:( Force closes before a book can start .... Disappointing