Importing Kindle or BookShare books into ElevenLabs Reader

By Kathy, 30 June, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

I wondered if e-books from the Kindle app or Book Share can be imported into the app either directly through the app or from the files app. If i can do it through sharing through the files app, how do i find these books? I listened to the podcast and i am clear on how to share from the files app but no explanation was given on how to locate a file to share. If Kindle books are not able to e shared, then what about Apple Books?

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By Ollie on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 18:29

You can with bookshare as they lack Digital Rights Management but there is no way, as yet, to import kindle books directly or books from apple books.

Speechify, a similar app, had an intagration of the kindle cloud reader but it was janky.

I do agree that this would be marvelous though. There are many books on kindle I can't get as audiobooks which would be far more palitable with an eleven labs voice.

Not all books are available on bookshare and it tends to be the ones that are already available as audio books anyway.

By Ryder on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 18:29

I would like to hear Kindle books read in ElevenLabs too. The Alexa app does a very good job reading Kindle books but in the Alexa iOS app we only get one female voice. It is a very natural voice to the point of being amazing but some books are narrated by the first person male so I find it discombobulating for a female audio voice reading the book. Not all books are audiobooks. Right now I’m listening to Mary Shelley’s The Last Man. Her male character who narrates in the long book doesn’t translate well with a female audio voice. However I have a trove of books that do need a female audio voice and Alexa is superb with those books. I wish the iOS Alexa app would let us switch between female and male voices. ElevenLabs have so many voices now and they are so good. I’m listening to Mary Shelley’s The Last Man there with the Australian Charlie voice and it’s an amazing experience. I imported the ebook from Project Gutenberg.

By Ryder on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 18:29

I just noticed that Voice Dream reader has a new beta option to have it read Kindle books. They have a seven day free trial and then it’s $60 a year. It’s free to have Alexa read Kindle books and that voice sounds natural compared to Voice Dream and their robotic sounding voices. So perhaps it’s possible for ElevenLabs to do Kindle in the future. I’d like to see that.

By tyler chambliss on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 18:29

If you can somehow pull a digital Harry Houdini and turn a kindle book into an epub you'd be set. It'll read any epub or pdf.

By sockhopsinger on Saturday, December 21, 2024 - 03:29

Can someone tell me how to do this? Much appreciated, and thanks.

By Ollie on Saturday, December 21, 2024 - 09:29

You'll have to download the book on your computer, put it somewhere accessible to your phone, iCloud drive, for example, and then import it that way. As far as I know, you can't import directly from the BookShare app.

By Samanthia on Saturday, December 21, 2024 - 12:29

You can also download the books from bookshare directly on your phone if you do it through the bookshare website on a web browser like Safari. The download should go to your downloads folder in the files app. Then you can inport it to 11 labs from there. I do this all the time.