Once the book is playing, you can pause and play it on your phone using touch controls.įor 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. These are taken from Amazon’s help center article on this feature. In addition to playing the Kindle titles, there are a few other voice commands you’ll want to be aware of. Step #3: Pause, play, and control speed with voice commands It’s a little-known feature that any Amazon Echo device can read your Kindle books aloud to you, even if you don’t own the corresponding audiobook (this works with any Kindle book that supports text-to-speech technology).Īnd the really cool thing is, you don’t need to have an Amazon Echo device to take advantage of this feature. Who will deliver us from this ocular tyranny? Tragically, even in this era of e-books, we are still stuck reading most books with our eyes. Plus, most new books release straight to Kindle at the same time the paperback comes out, but the audiobook version (if it ever does come) arrives much later to the publishing party. And if you follow Tim Challies‘ blog (which you should), you likely have a prodigious selection of Kindle books you bought on sale for $2.99 but have never read. I’ve also made a video demonstrating the steps detailed below.Ĭertainly, audiobooks fill the need for hands-free reading to a degree.īetween Audible and Christian Audio a decent offering of Christian books can be found. But Kindle’s selection is much larger.

My kindle books