Now that I find very interesting, often on long flights I just get tired of keeping my eyes open hour after hour either reading or watching a movie, but hearing an audio book is different. I will have to head back to Amazon and see just how that works, so far I’m sold, for reasons some might understand I don’t want to be an Apple fan, I do not want to spend $500 or more on a tablet just yet, I won’t even be going back to work unless for some reason somebody WANTS me to work and my seasonal job won’t appear until next april unless I fly down to Australia and work their summer but for other reasons this year I am stuck in Alaska this winter.
If you don’t want the whole media thing, just a reader and an audio book, the other Kindles also can be used as audiobooks. With the other Kindles you have to download the audiobooks to a computer and then to your kindle.
I haven’t tried to buy and download an audio from my Fire yet but since I just had to download the audiobook ap and sign in to access the library, I assume you can do that.
I hope you find what you want. I don’t think you will be disappointed whichever one you choose. All of the Kindles stay charged a lot longer than the Fire. I have had to charge it frequently.