Kindle and continuous reading, is it still broken in iOS 26?

Hi,
In iOS 17 and before, I could easily, and happily read a kindle book, have voiceover read it continuously, and it would play through a bluetooth speaker without me having to go over to the phone every so often and make it start reading again. In iOS 18, the continuous reading broke, and it seems like every 20 or 30 minutes, I have to stop what I'm doing, because voiceover stops reading my book, go over to the phone, and make it start reading again (ugh, so annoying, more annoying than the netflix "are you still there" message IMO). My question is has this been fixed in IOS 26? I really miss long kindle reading stretches.