Author: Paul Sawers / Source: VentureBeat
Google is introducing the first major update to the audiobook service it launched two months ago.
The internet giant arrived late on the audiobook scene in January with a service that lets bookworms get audio versions of their favorite reads directly through the Google Play Books app on Android, iOS, and the web.
Today, the company has five fresh updates to add to the mix.First up, readers will now be able to save the best bits of their audiobooks to a new bookmark section. So if there’s a particular quotable notable that you like, you can now hit the bookmark button and come back to it later.
But arguably a more popular update will be the “smart resume” feature. If you have to pause your book to deal with something unexpectedly, you can end up losing focus and forgetting what was going on in the story — with smart resume, the audio will rewind to the beginning of the previous word or sentence.
At the initial January launch, Google Play’s audiobooks let you speed things up by as much as double…
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