🛜 Note: Read Aloud requires a stable internet connection
🔊📖 How to use Read Aloud
Before opening the book you've selected, make sure it comes with Read Aloud by looking for the icon pictured below 🔊+📖
Still unsure? Check out this article.
1. Skip past the cover to begin using Read Aloud
2. Click on the Read Aloud button to open the Read Aloud panel or use the keyboard shortcut ⌥ + R
3. ▶️ Press the "Play" button to begin reading!
You should then hear the audio playback. Press play, pause, or stop in the panel anytime.
*Now available on select PDFs! See differences detailed below.
ePub | reads text aloud paragraph-by-paragraph until the end of the chapter. |
reads text aloud in 30-minute increments. |
⏸️ Pause
Pause the audio by clicking the "Pause" button and play again to resume.
⏹️ Stop
If you want to listen to a different section, click the "Stop" button. This will reset the Read Aloud tool and stop the audio playback for the current section.
Scroll to the section of the book you would like to be read aloud and click the play button again.
⏮️ ⏭️ Skip
To skip to the next or go back to the previous paragraph, you can click the "Next" or "Previous" buttons.
👉 Select
You can also hover next to the paragraph where you wish to begin reading and select the Read Aloud icon to play from there.
Adjust speed
You can change how quickly the text is read aloud.
Click the speed control button in the Read Aloud panel and adjust the slider to either slow down or speed up the audio playback to your preferred speed.
Skip footnotes and superscripts
To help with focus and flow, Read Aloud will skip footnotes by default.
You can change this anytime - tap the gear icon ⚙️ and uncheck the box next to "Skip footnotes".
*Note: only in ePubs at the moment.
Problem with Read Aloud?
Let us know! Use the feedback button in the corner of any book to report an issue.
If you have a more urgent request, please contact customer support via live chat or email at [email protected].