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This app gives you some old style entertainment in a new style. It gives you free access to good quality audio recordings of over 3500 classic tales and stories. Most of the stories are in English, but there are a few in other European languages and a handful in Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew as well.
You can also browse around by authors, genres or languages.
If you find a narrator that you like you can then also search by Narrator.
Listening to an audio recording is streamed, but as you are listening the rest of the chapters start to download. You can pause the download at any time.
One caveat that I found is that if you pause your listening and download, when my screensaver comes on the playback and the download automatically start again. Now if I was using 3G and had a download limit this could be an issue. So watch out for that!
If you’re not sure where to start then the app gives you a list of the top 50 audiobooks that have been listened to the most, or you can let the app choose an audiobook for you by tapping on the ‘Surprise Me’ tab.
The audiobooks are split into parts, often along the chapter lines, and you can skip or go back to previous chapters easily.
If you enjoy having a story being read to you before sleeping then you’ll enjoy the sleep timer function of this app. You can set a timer so that the playback will stop in 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes.
Any audiobook you have played automatically goes into your library so that you can listen again or go back to a book you started but didn’t finish.
I would have liked to have had to option of choosing some gentle background music to accompany the reading. The selection of books in this app is not for everyone. It would be of interest to history students as there are a lot of historical texts on the list.
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