To see the country through a child’s eyes is joyous and heartbreaking.

Just like podcasts, the service will offer speed controls so you can listen at your preferred pace.In the coming-of-age story We Need New Names (2013) by NoViolet Bulawayo, you are transported to Zimbabwe through the voice of Darling, a 10-year-old girl growing up in the shanty town of Paradise under Mugabe’s regime.

Any purchased titles will automatically appear in your library and will be available for offline listening. If you decide to do so, a link will boot you out to a browser to complete the transaction before beaming you back to Spotify to start listening. When you select an audiobook, you'll see a lock icon on the play button that indicates you haven't yet purchased the title. The service's library of titles will also show up in search results like artists, albums, songs and podcasts already do. Over time, this section will be tailored to your activity just like any other content that's recommended for you on the service. When you dive into the audiobooks tab, you'll see a collection of picks from Spotify at launch. In addition to their own section alongside music and podcasts, audiobooks will show up in your recommendations on the main page. At launch, the company says its library will contain over 300,000 titles. Starting today, users in the US will have a dedicated section for the format that allows standalone purchases via a web link. After several moves that indicated this day was coming, Spotify has officially added audiobooks as yet another listening option in its app.

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