E-readers you can listen along to the book with?

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As my ds gets older (he’s currently 11), he’s struggling with reading. Not the physical reading of words - he’s always been quite advanced for that - but he has some executive functioning issues, and I think he is quite lazy and gets bored easily. He likes to read easy books Big Nate and Diary of a Wimpy Kid type, which is fine as they’re age appropriate, but I’m really struggling to get him to read anything meatier and these types of books are now being set for homework. He is happy to read them, and generally enjoys them, but only if I read them with him and after a page or two, he always asks me to read. He says he gets bored of turning the pages!

I read on a FB thread once how someone has a kindle, or other reader, and buys the audiobook as well so her ds can listen to a book and read along at the same time. This would be perfect. But I can’t find the post now and can’t see that that’s possible with a kindle where, if I understand it correctly, you can either listen or read, but not both at the same time.

Does anyone know a way that we could do this? What set up do we need?

Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks.

Bumping for a different audience please.

Kindle fire

@KurriKawari thanks for the reply. How does it work on the kindle fire? Do you load the kindle app and listen on audible?

I have used the kindle app on my android phone and tablet to do this. I have kindle unlimited and have only used it when you get it with the book for nothing though. It is all done in the kindle app. As you listen it tracks the word on the page, if you change the page or tap a word it will start from there. H

Ah, that’s great, thanks @fluffy. So the kindle app on an iPad would work the same?

Although I’m wondering if a kindle fire would be better to read on?

It should be, I had it on my ipod many years ago, the Kindle fire is just Amazon's tablet.
It would be worth trying it on the ipad first, once you have the books you can read them on any device including a PC. I'm pretty sure the audio feature is not on the Kindle paperwhite but might be on the more expensive dedicated ereaders.

So I can read a few chapters of a book on my paperwhite, then as I need to get on with some work, I open the app on my phone, it will find my place and I can then get it to read to me while I get on with stuff. Love it.

My origional kindle would read out to me. Alexa will also read a kindle out loud.

@sashh I didn’t know that. Off to try it!

If you sign up to audible you can whisper-synch the audiobook with the kindle e-book. I’ve never tried to listen and read at the same time but can’t see why you couldn’t try it.
The problem with the kindle reading the book out loud is that it’s not narrated, it’s just read out robot style which is unbearable.