"'Education is the Science of Relations'; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we know that our business is not to teach him all about anything, but to help him to make valid as many as may be of––
'Those first-born affinities,
That fit our new existence to existing things.'"
Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education
with a quote from The Prelude by William Wordsworth
This will work only if you have a Kindle or Kindle app and device capable of installing the Audible app, which are available on both the Apple and Android platforms. It is a really great way to get very cheap audiobooks and you don't have to have an Audible account to get them.
Amazon has a neat feature for some books called Whispersync for Voice that allows you to synchronize your visual book with you audiobook. Let's say you are reading a book on your Kindle at bedtime. The next day, when you go off in the car, you can synchronize your audiobook to wherever you left off reading. That night, when you want to read more, you can synchronize to where the audio left off. It works really well!
What's even better is that some books in the public domain--the kind homeschoolers are often reading--offer both the visual and audio books for incredibly cheap prices. For example, Great Expectations Kindle edition is free and you can add on the professionally-narrated audiobook for a mere $0.99! (Anyone that has listened to a poorly-narrated book will appreciate the benefit of professional narration.) Once you buy it, just open the Audible app and it will show in the library for you to download onto your device. It is very simple to use and I have found it very handy!
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