I’ve been an Audible subscribe as far back as I can remember. I think I originally joined around 2000 or 2001 and used to listen to audio books on my Windows CE device at the time. Audible has been on the iPhone and iPod Touch platform for some time through the Apple iTunes Store but now Audible have released their own app along with changes that allowed them to do so in iOS 4.0.
The first good thing about the app is it’s free. Unfortunately though you’re not able to browse through Audible’s selection of audio books or purchase books directly. This still has to be done from the website. Audible claims to have over 75,000 titles available.
You do have to be connected to a WiFi router to download files larger than 20mb as there’s a cap on large downloads. Although this limit isn’t a surprise to most as most applications have a similar limitation imposed by Apple.
Audio book playback is where the new app really does come in great. The app provides a much better experience than listening to audio books through the iPod player and with the newly released iOS 4 multitasking, this gives you the ability to mutlitask and listen to an audio book whilst running another application at the same time (providing that both apps are iOS4 friendly of course).
The app has some great features like a bookmark system, ability to set a sleep timer so that the book pauses at a desired time and rewind and fast forward functions.
The Audible app also works with the other audio books you have previoulsy purchased and synced from iTunes.
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