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List of Kindles That Support Audiobooks

February 7, 2020 by Nathan Groezinger

Kindle Audiobooks

Most people get a Kindle to read ebooks, but the newer Kindles all support audiobooks so you can listen to your books as well.

The first few generations of Kindles all supported audiobooks, but then Amazon dropped all audio support spanning several generations of Kindles before they decided to bring audiobooks back again.

The current line of Kindles and all the models released since 2016 support audiobooks.

However, they only support audiobooks from Amazon-owned Audible.

Below is a list of all the Kindle models that support audiobooks.

The 8th gen Kindle and 1st Kindle Oasis didn’t support audiobooks initially; that was a feature added via a software update.

If you’re unsure of which Kindle model you own, see this page at Amazon for a description of each model: Which Kindle do I have?

Recent Kindles That Support Audiobooks
Kindle Oasis – all models
Kindle Paperwhite – 10th gen only
Kindle – 8th gen/10th gen
Kids Kindle – 10th gen

Older Kindles That Support Audiobooks
Kindle 1
Kindle 2
Kindle 3 (aka Kindle Keyboard)
Kindle DX
Kindle Touch

For those with an Amazon Prime membership, you can listen to a few hundred audiobooks for free as part of Prime Reading.

Unfortunately Kindle ereaders do not support Immersion Reading where you can read along while the audiobook is read aloud, but here’s the list of devices that do support Immersion Reading.

Filed Under: Amazon Kindle Tagged With: audiobooks

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Comments

  1. Elizabeth says

    February 8, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    Umm. Would you please clarify for others. Older Kindles (like my K3) can support Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)) and MP3 .

  2. Nancy gGilbert says

    February 14, 2021 at 11:14 am

    Can I have an account on a kindle and can I order audio books from a kindle

  3. Wolf says

    July 17, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    Pretty sure this is crazy wrong considering Amazon itself says kindle paperwhite 4 and up (and maybe more) can all support audible.

    • Nathan says

      July 18, 2023 at 6:35 am

      All the newer Kindles support Audible. This article was posted in 2020 and the 10th gen model (the Paperwhite 4) was the latest model at the time.

  4. David Elms says

    December 14, 2023 at 4:53 pm

    Does the 11th gen paperwhite support Audible in New Zealand?

    • Nathan says

      December 15, 2023 at 7:23 am

      I don’t know about the specifics in New Zealand. You’d have to ask Amazon support.

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