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at night, charles spurgeon’s wife would sit on a cushion at his feet and read to him. So far, I haven’t been able to persuade my wife to do the same for me, but I think she may have found a workaround. now i listen to kindle books on iphone.
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could read a few more chapters of your kindle book while you’re driving, exercising, or doing chores? well you can! In this post, I will show you how to listen to kindle books on iphone.
Without a doubt, audiobooks satisfy the need for hands-free reading to some extent.
Between Audible and Christian audio you can find a decent supply of Christian books. but the kindle selection is much bigger. And if you follow Tim Challies’ blog (which you should), you probably have a prodigious selection of Kindle books you bought on sale for $2.99 but never read. Also, most new books are released directly to Kindle at the same time the paperback comes out, but the audiobook version (if it ever comes) arrives at the publisher much later.
Tragically, even in this era of e-books, we are still stuck reading most books with our eyes. Who will deliver us from this ocular tyranny?
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enter: amazon alexa.
It’s a little-known feature that any amazon echo device can read your kindle books out loud, even if you don’t have the corresponding audiobook (this works with any kindle book that supports text-to-speech technology).
and the really cool thing is that you don’t need to have an amazon echo device to take advantage of this feature. all you need is the free alexa app. this is how you do it.
Step #1: Download and sign in to the amazon alexa app
- Go to your device’s app store (works on ios and android). search for “alexa” and download the free app.
- open the app and sign in to the amazon account where you have your kindle books.
step #2: press the blue alexa button and say: “alexa, play the kindle book, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
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for example, “alexa play the kindle book, ‘the imperfect disciple'”
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Alexa will then begin reading the book at whatever point you last left off.
this also highlights another feature of this method: you can read books in a hybrid way: you can listen on your phone or echo device while doing housework, exercising or driving and at other times you can read them normally on your turn on device. Amazon takes care of remembering where you left off no matter how you consume the book.
step #3: pause, play and control speed with voice commands
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In addition to playing Kindle titles, there are a few other voice commands you’ll want to know about. these are taken from the amazon help center article on this feature.
- “[pause/stop/resume].”
- “[skip forward/skip back].”
- “volume [1-10].”
- “open my kindle books.”
- “show me my kindle books.”
For some reason they don’t include this in the list of commands, but you can also say “play slower” or “play faster” and Alexa will step up or down the speed of reading by 1/4 increments.
step #4: listen to kindle books without using your voice
Sometimes when you’re out in public, you don’t want to have to use voice commands. It can be embarrassing to yell at your phone while you’re on the treadmill at the gym. Fortunately, most of Kindle’s reading features are also available via touch controls.
To manually select a kindle book to play aloud, in the alexa app simply go to the “play” menu at the bottom of the screen and scroll down to “kindle library”.
Here you can browse books available for listening through the Alexa app. Just tap on the title you want and select the device you want it to play on—for your phone just select “this device”.
Note: I did notice that all of my eligible Kindle books did not appear on this screen. For those, I was still able to get them to play using the voice commands.
now you can listen to kindle books on iphone!
congratulations! your eyes are now free. use your new powers wisely.