Amazon Echo: 5 Best features, tricks of Alexa

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4. Kindle Compatibility

The Amazon Echo has compatibility with Audible for all your audiobook needs as it will play the audio aloud. While that’s a nice function for the Amazon Echo to be connected to something that many people like, there’s actually more options for you to listen to in an audiobook format than just whatever you have on you Audible account. Instead, you can listen to what you’ve purchased on Kindle and be read to by Alexa.

Using the same technology that allows Alexa to read online articles to pick up facts or other things for you to better answer your questions, the Amazon Echo can connect to your Amazon account and see what books you’ve purchased on Kindle and then read the text to you like it’s an audiobook. It’s almost like a work around way to have any book that’s on Kindle turned into an audiobook, which is pretty awesome.

Even if audiobooks aren’t your thing, you still have to admit that this feature for the Amazon Echo is pretty cool for those who do. And for those who are into listening to audiobooks, your options as to what you can listen to just got a whole lot wider with this feature, narrated by Alexa of course!

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