If you’re like most people, you probably have an Echo device in your home. And if you’re an Amazon Kindle owner, you probably have an Echo too. But what if you want to read your Kindle books out loud? That’s easy! Just add a few lines of code to your Echo device and you’re good to go. Here’s how it works: first, open the Amazon Echo app on your phone or tablet. Then open the “Settings” menu and select “Echo.” Under “Speech,” set “Alexa” as the speaker. Now type in “read my Kindle books out loud” and hit return. You’ll be asked to confirm this before the echo will start reading your Kindle books out loud. Once the echo has started reading your Kindle books out loud, just tap on one of them to continue reading. If you want to stop the echo at any time, just tap on the “x” in the top left corner of each book’s screen.
To do this, tap on the sidebar menu button in the top-left corner of the screen in the Alexa app.
Select “Music & Books”.
Tap on “Kindle Books” at the bottom.
From there, all of the supported Kindle ebooks that you own will appear in the list.
You don’t have to go into the Alexa app at all, though. Obviously, the whole point of the Echo is using voice commands to do everything hands-free. So, to listen to your Kindle books, just say:
“Alexa, read my Kindle book.”
“Alexa, read my book, [title]”
“Alexa, play the Kindle book, [title].”
“Alexa, read [title].”
You can also use voice commands to control your Kindle book, like pausing, rewinding, etc.
“Alexa, pause.”
“Alexa, resume.”
“Alexa, play.”
“Alexa, stop.”
The commands below allow you to navigate paragraphs:
“Alexa, skip back.”
“Alexa, skip ahead.”
“Alexa, go back.”
“Alexa, go forward.”
“Alexa, next.”
“Alexa, previous.”
Unfortunately, you can’t navigate based on chapters like you can with Audible audiobooks, but the controls you do get are quite impressive.
