![]() If you have the book you want to read on an Android phone, you can turn on TalkBack to have your phone read it – or anything on your screen – aloud. She will also read emails, news articles, texts, and whatever else is on the screen, so this can use her to help you keep up with work or information while resting your eyes, staying active, or driving. But she is an AI and sometimes mispronounces things. She does a good job, too, for the most part. Then summon Siri and say, “Speak Screen.” She will read the book aloud, in her voice. All she needs is a digital copy of the book, downloaded to your phone, to read from. If you don’t have a Kindle (but do have an iPhone) or want a cheaper way to do this, get Siri to read aloud. While you are reading a book, just choose Tools/Start text to speech and a computer voice will take over the reading so you can close your eyes. When you have a book open in the app, you can use Whispersync or turn on text-to-speech and have it read aloud to you at any time. You don’t have to own a Kindle to buy a Kindle book on Amazon and read it on a tablet, computer, or phone. And the audio books are read by skilled voice artists or actors. Not only will this service read the book aloud while you walk or drive, it will remember where you were and cue up the audio in precisely the same place you left off when you were reading. You don’t even have to have a Kindle, really, for this to work. In fact, you can listen through any tablet, phone, or Amazon Echo, so the way you do this is really up to you. Or open the book on your phone and start listening either through headphones or a connected speaker that way, if you want to go for a walk, say, and don’t want to bring your Kindle. If you are reading a book on your Kindle and want to get in the tub and have that book read aloud to you, you can switch to audio, if you have the audio version, right from your Kindle. It asked me if I wanted to go to the most recent page read (in Audible.) I tapped “Yes” and it took me to the same spot in the book it had last read. When I wanted to switch back to reading, I opened the Kindle app and also opened that same title.It did that without any input from me but I could tap “undo” to go to another place in the audiobook. A message informed me that it would pick up where I left off on another device.(I could also switch to another device here. When you want to switch to listening to the book, I open the same title in the Audible app on that same phone.Open the Kindle app on your phone (or on your Kindle) and read some of the book. ![]() And if you have Kindle Unlimited, a subscription service that gives you access to thousands of titles for $10 a month, the Audible version is often available without an additional fee. ![]() Sometimes, publishers make the Kindle version super cheap if you buy the Audible version. Then buy the Audible version of the same book. Buy a Kindle book on Amazon that also has an audio version.But you often get a significant discount on one of them so this isn’t quite as expensive as it sounds. You have to own both the Kindle version and the Audible version of the book for this to work. The easiest, slickest, and most enjoyable way to have a book read aloud is to use Amazon’s Whispersync. You can do this from your phone, your Kindle, or your Amazon Echo. Have you ever been deep into a book and had to put it down to go somewhere? What if you could get in your car, put on your sneakers, or close your eyes and fire up that book – right where you left off – and have your phone read aloud while you get where you need to go, get some things done, or just lie in a tub with a damp cloth over your your eyes? Sound good? You don’t have to buy anything, probably.
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