A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on Livescribe Pen and how it can help you get more out of your Kindle. It’s true that you can take notes and bookmark documents right on your Kindle. But Livescribe Pen has a few features that Amazon should consider for Kindle 3.0. For starters, Livescribe allows you to record your notes in audio and link them with your text notes. That is an extremely useful feature. I am a heavy note taker. It helps me learn things better. But I often find myself struggling to make any sense of my notes after a few months have passed. Maybe I am a terrible note taker, but this problem is something that most folks have to deal with at some point.
With my Livescribe audio notes, I simply don’t have that problem anymore. I can leave notes for myself and listen to them at a future time. It’s much easier to remember things when you leave yourself audio+note reminders. Unfortunately, Kindle does not come with a voice recorder, which means you won’t be able to pull this off on it.
Not only can’t you record audio on your Kindle, you can’t link it to your text notes either. Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary device, but Amazon needs to go outside-the-box to help us read more effectively and enjoy a better reading experience. Being able to take Audio-notes is one way to help readers get more out of each and every book. Livescribe has had so much success with it, and there is no reason Amazon shouldn’t try.
Your take: should Amazon add an audio recorder to Kindle?
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4 comments
#1PaulMarch 11, 2009, 9:50 am
Yes, that would be incredible. Bookmarks are OK, but I often read samples on the Kindle and want to come back many months later to pick up where I left off. So I add Bookmarks so I remember key points. A voice recorder would be perfect. Thanks for the great site!
#2CameronMarch 12, 2009, 1:21 am
being able to leave audio notes linked to certain sections of the book is a good idea.
I honestly doubt this would be used by many people, but it is a great idea to show off the advantages possible with ebooks over traditional books.
This actually made me think of an idea of author commentary on his own book.
Imagine being able to read a chapter on your kindle and then listen to the author talk a bit about this section of the book.
One of the things that made DVD’s more popular than VHS was the addition of extras. Maybe ebooks can add value to the consumer by adding things like that.
#3P. RadMarch 12, 2009, 10:13 am
That’s a great idea. I do think the authors may ask for more money to do that, but that’s certainly possible. Kindle has many advantages over paper books and Amazon needs to use those to increase the adoption rate.
#4creativegeekNovember 30, 2011, 4:50 am
I would totally buy Kindle if it had an app like this
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