I’ve never seen this discussed or advertised, and I’m increasingly wondering why.
There are so many books that I listen to in the car or at home until I get into a situation where I can’t listen to audio, and have to either switch to a completely different book to read, wait until I can access audio again, or find my place in a digital print copy.
Why haven’t Libby, Hoopla, iBooks, etc. started selling and renting out audio/digital print books that can pick up from the place you left off in the other format? You read the digital copy in the waiting room of your doctor’s appointment, highlight the word that you stopped on, and it reads it to you as an audiobook from there. The opposite direction should be just as easy, hypothetically at least.
I’m open to all kinds of answers, because this may be already in existence, too difficult to code, too expensive for publishing companies and libraries, whatever. I’m just curious since I’ve never even heard it discussed.
by VisceralSardonic