Spotify Fixes My Major Frustration With Audiobooks - Here's How To Use Page Match

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways 

• Spotify unveiled Page Match connected Thursday.
• The caller characteristic simplifies switching betwixt audiobook and beingness book.
• Spotify will statesman trading beingness books connected nan app. 

Spotify is amping up its reference offerings. The streaming elephantine introduced a caller feature, Page Match, connected Thursday that simplifies switching betwixt audiobooks and beingness books. It will besides waste beingness books connected nan app done a business pinch independent bookseller Bookshop. 

Page Match makes it easy to spell from a page successful an audiobook to nan aforesaid page successful a beingness book -- and vice versa. By scanning nan page of a printed book aliases ebook, users tin easy navigate to that page successful Spotify's audiobooks. 

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As personification who has been utilizing Spotify's 15 monthly hours of free audiobook clip to publication caller titles, this characteristic feels for illustration it was made for me. I emotion listening to audiobooks connected nan go, for illustration connected nan subway commute to and from work, aliases while I'm doing cardio astatine nan gym. But erstwhile I get location from a engaged day, I effort to unplug from my screens and will upwind down by reference nan beingness type of that aforesaid book (if I hap to person it). I've done this respective times since discovering Spotify's breadth of audiobook offerings. 

Many of nan books I perceive to person agelong chapters that tin tally 50 minutes aliases much erstwhile I perceive done Spotify's audiobooks. If I'm halfway done a section this long, it tin return a batch of clip to effort and find my spot successful nan audiobook aliases beingness book. 

"We spot nan early of reference arsenic 1 that's personalized, flexible, and built to move fluidly crossed formats and moments," Spotify says successful a property release. 

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The characteristic is disposable to each Spotify audiobook listeners connected astir English-language titles. Premium subscribers tin statesman utilizing nan instrumentality now, pinch a afloat rollout coming to each Spotify users by February 23. 

Here's really to usage nan caller characteristic to move betwixt audiobooks, ebooks, and beingness books, and vice versa. 

How to move from your book to a Spotify audiobook

To move from your book aliases e-reader to nan audiobook, hunt for nan audiobook connected Spotify and deed nan "Page Match" button. Tap "Scan to listen" and alteration camera entree successful nan app. Then scan nan page of nan book you're reading. Your spot will look successful nan app, and Spotify will punctual you to "Play from here" aliases "Save for later." 

How to move from your Spotify audiobook to a book aliases e-reader

To move from Spotify's audiobook to your book aliases ebook, pat "Page Match." Then pat "Scan to read." Use nan camera to scan a page successful your book -- immoderate page -- for Spotify to orient itself. Then it will return your spot successful nan audiobook and guideline you guardant aliases backward to find your nonstop place.

How to acquisition books connected Spotify 

Through a business pinch indie bookstore website, Bookshop.org, Spotify users successful nan US and UK tin statesman purchasing beingness books this spring. The titles disposable to acquisition connected Spotify will besides person audiobook options connected nan app.