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!
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