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Old 09-05-2022, 04:35 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by jonathan2022 View Post
It does one page for sideloaded books.
I couldn't find anything that did more than the visible screen or the rest of a paragraph. Which is what Talkback is meant to do!

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Books purchased from Amazon it does continuous reading.
That must be some sort of special Amazon accessibility feature. Normal apps won't do that with Talkback. You need an app with a built in TTS button. Like Pocketbook, though it can't work directly with Amazon/Kindle files.

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I have brought a kindle 2019 edition that uses voiceview. But bluetooth uses a lot of battery on my kindle.
Voiceview is an accessibility feature, not TTS for sighted people. The older Kindles and some recent BT Kindles in China have real TTS.
Also BT earphones run flat. A 3.5mm jack is better quality and less power.

Most of the books I read are not from Amazon (nor Kobo) so Sync is of zero value. I just upgraded the Wife from an original Kobo Libra to a Sage. She has about 300 books bought from Amazon in nearly 10 years. I copied the contents of the Libra to PC and then to Sage. 1765 Books. I copied the database too, but that gave errors, so I reset. Then to "sync" the almost all PC books I simply used search on new Kobo with part of title, working from oldest to most recent "Reading" on the Libra and opening each to same %.
In the currently being read I simply searched for 4 words at top of the page to set position.

All faster than a WiFi sync, which will on only work on Amazon things with Amazon books and on Kobo things with Kobo books and on Apple things with Apple Books.

Sync is a ploy to spy on your use of bought books. Most people read one book at a time, and on 1 or maybe two devices. A search is faster than a Sync to WiFi on both gadgets. It doesn't work at all on any ecosystem with 3rd party content.

We never have WiFi or BT on on any eink.
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