Especially if you pay for Pro which gives you cloud sync for your position - so it's easy to restore and pick up listening even if you switch phones. Even if you don't pay, your position is stored in a file inside the book folder which you can easily copy.
Just leave the sleep timer set to 20 minutes and leave it on all the time. If you are walking or driving, it stays playing, but if you are listening in bed, it turns off on its own. If you are still listening, just give your phone a shake when you hear it start to fade and it will keep going for 20 more minutes.
All the readers are volunteers - people who clearly love the books, but unfortunately some recordings are very low-quality, jump around in volume, or are difficult to understand.
Some books offer different readers, but often a book has only been read by a single volunteer. For books with multiple options, you may have to jump between them to finally find who works for you.
The app offers content released to the Public Domain. The library consists of 15,000 free audio books available globally and another 50,000 books available to US.
By linking Amazon and Audible accounts, the Amazon Family sharing can be used to sync an Audible library across Android devices, PCs, and computers. Everyone on the Amazon Family group can see audiobooks, and the owner of the Audible account can pick and choose which individual audiobooks are shared and which aren't, if desired.
Users can tap the "car" option in Audible to get a simplified user interface which makes playing, pausing, and rewinding audiobooks easier while driving.
The developers try to keep the app updated from bugs and to make it a world-class app. With ever-growing features and improvements, it even competes with the best podcast apps out there.
This is a must-have podcast app if you're living in another country apart from the US. CastBox supports and shows podcasts from more than 70 countries.