Selecting a book to play

Selecting a book to play

Once you have found a book in a list that you want to listen to, you can select the book either using its position in the list, or using words from the title. For example, you could say number 1 or The fellowship of the ring. Once you have selected a book, your speaker will give you a brief description about it, which will normally include, the title, name of the author, and the play time.

From here, you can choose to play the book by saying yes or play, or add the book to your bookshelf or wishlist by saying add to bookshelf or add to wishlist respectively.

For more information about a book you can say describe or details, which will provide the selected books title, author, narrator, the length of the audio in hours and minutes, the audio book identifier number, annotation, genre and if the book is part of a series.

To read the annotation say, summary or annotation. For information about how the book is structured say, structure, this provides the number of level of navigation. For example a book structured with sections, parts and chapters, may have three levels of navigation. ') '
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