Amazon is offering J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit for Kindle for $6.39 ($8.99 value) and the audiobook for an additional $5.49 ($26.38 value) for a total of $11.88 for limited time. Having both formats allows you to use Amazon’s Whispersync for Voice feature, which allows you to switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to the Audible audiobook where you left off.

A great modern classic and the prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.