Searching for books

Searching for books

Searching for books

You can search for specific books using their title, saying something like Find books with title Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or, List books titled Little Women.

You can also search for books by author, topic, or narrator, by saying things such as Find books by John Green or, Search for books about aliens or, Find books read by Stephen Fry or alternatively, Find books narrated by Stephen Fry.
It should also be noted that if you search for a book with a specific title, such as old man and the sea, and there are multiple copies of that book available with different narrators. Pocket will provide you with the list of available books, first listing the title, then listing the narrator.

If you are currently listening to one book, and want to find and switch to another, you can do this by first stopping the playback by saying stop, and then searching in the same way as described earlier, using phrases like Find books with title dune. You can then select a new book to listen to from the list of books provided.


Refining your search

When you are searching for books you can give extra information to help find the book you want. This extra information can be about topic, narrator, genre and more.

For example you could say Find books by Dr.Seuss which would result in a very long list of available books. To narrow down the search you could instead say Find books by Dr.Seuss about cats which would result in a more targeted list of books for you to choose from.

When you ask for books about a topic, you may get a large number of results. To narrow down the possibilities try refining your search by genre. For example instead of Find books about the moon you could say Find books about the moon, of genre science fiction.

You can also do this as multiple steps. For example, you could say Find books by Wells and listen to the first few books RealSAM Pocket provides. If the book you want to listen to is not in this list, you could then say something like And about Aliens to help narrow down the search. ')
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