These are all services which you have to pay for. There are a few different ways to access eBooks and eAudiobooks, but I thought that I would discuss some of the more well-known and talked about options. This could really empower folks in entirely new ways.Hello everyone! And welcome to a discussion post I’ve been wanting to write for a while but was a bit nervous to share. For those of us who are sighted, but just like having our hands free, these are helpful features.īut what really excites me is how we're a few steps away from providing some very capable browsing and discovery accessibility features to sight-challenged individuals. But as time goes on, these additions are logical extensions to Amazon's offerings.
Would you like me to read that?"Īnd, once again, Alexa would begin reading it to you. Here's another potential future exchange:Īlexa: "I have Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller in your library. A similar approach might be taken for books already in your Kindle library. Would you like to buy it now?"Īnd then, Alexa would begin reading the book, all without screen access. Would you like more details?"Īlexa: "It's $11.99. Would you like to purchase and download either of them?"Īlexa: "Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the USS Enterprise home to join in the fight.
For example, "Alexa, what's that new Discovery Enterprise book?" might result in this exchange:Īlexa: "Two titles might meet your needs: Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller and Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel (Star Trek: Enterprise Book 16) by Christopher L. With just earbuds, you might even be able to purchase a book. It could allow books to be sent to devices you specify. It could add better title parsing, so you could send "that Enterprise book" to a device. But think about what Amazon could do with it in the future.Īlso: Reality shock: The #FakeWorld future of ubiquitous AR There's no doubt that - today - this new feature is a whole lot of meh. One bonus, I was told, is that if you delete a Kindle Unlimited book in this way, Amazon marks it as a return. I asked a random Amazon tech support person whether it would be possible to get back a book I deleted this way, and he said he didn't know and hadn't yet been brave enough to try it. If you ask Alexa to delete the book you sent, you're not just deleting the book from your device, you're permanently removing it from your library.
Once you send a book to a device, you can use Alexa to remove it, but this is really the nuclear option.
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