Monday, January 13, 2020

Amazon Launches Audible Suno App in India


Last month, Amazon just launches a completely free app Audible Suno for Indian user exclusively. Audible Suno is a free streaming service that gives you unlimited access to Audible 60 original and exclusive episodes in both Hindi and English languages. The service is completely free: no payment, no ads, no sign-up required. With Audible Suno, you can hear India's most famous voices. Such as Bollywood stars, TV celebrities, comedians, famous authors and more.
“Suno is our latest experiment and we see India as a first market to offer such services globally. We want to build a habit for audio entertainment in India and we want to create a new demographic appeal with this new experiment,” said Audible founder Don Katz, “Audible Suno is a world-first for Audible, and reflects our commitment to creating exceptional entertainment for our Indian customers.”
If you beomce Audible member, you will get access to over 200,000 Hindi and English audiobooks and exclusive members-only global shows.
Bonus tip: if you want to back up your purchased Audible books, you can follow this step by step guide to convert Audible to MP3.

Download Epubor Audible Converter for Free

Monday, January 6, 2020

BOOX 2.2.2 Firmware Update Is Available Now


Onyx Boox, is a brand of eBook reader produced by Onyx International Inc based in China, has been making e-readers for 10 years and the company has a number of e-readers they are currently selling. Recently, they had released a firmware update which was available for all Onyx BOOX e-readers and E-Notes that run Android 6.0 OS, such as the Max2 Pro, Max2, Note Pro Nova Pro, Note and others. Good news is that this great update includes many new features which is dedicated to improving user experience.
According to BOOX Firmware 2.2.2 changelog, below are their new features: 
1. Allow scribbles for flow documents. The pages with scribbles can be exported from TOC (do not support embedding scribbles to original flow documents).
2. Support full-page translation, which can be activated via Menu — Split View — Page Translation.
3. Now PDFs also allow scribbles after reflow.
4. PDFs auto-fits the display width in landscape mode.
5. Flow documents support highlight across pages (PDFs do not support).
6. Added a zoom function (maximum zoom level: 16x) to the Note app, and adjusted the tool placement.
7. Added a language option on the AI interface.
8. Optimized the brush latency for gray colors.
9. Long-pressing on app icons for optimization is back now.
10. Added a language option on the handwriting keyboard interface, adjusted the placement for speech input.
11. Optimized the speech recognition interface, and add punctuation input.
12. The system contrast can be set individually on the drop-down menu.

So you can now edit ebooks in Onyx Boox devices after updating the BOOX 2.2.2 Firmware. Before, you can only scribble on PDF documents, but from now on, you can also edit epub, mobi, txt, and all formats you may use.
Bonus tip: if you want to read DRM protected Kindle books on your Onyx Boox reader, you can read this guide on how to read any Kindle books on Boox.