Audiobook Reader

Turn any eBook into an Audiobook with Amazon Alexa and Polly

Audiobook Reader - Ebooks to Audiobooks

"Audiobook Reader" is an innovative Android app that converts any eBook into an audiobook using Amazon Polly, offering a natural reading experience with real-time text highlighting. It supports various formats, including EPUB and MOBI, allowing users to sideload books easily. With audio narration in over 28 languages and a premium upgrade for enhanced features, it offers a unique and cost-effective solution for audiobook lovers.
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App stats

Users: 80,910
3
Rating: 2.91
(431)
Version: 1.3 (Last updated: 2018-05-29)
Creation date: 2018-04-09
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • modify system settings

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App summary

We know the app is unstable for some people and we are working on solving these issues. App will be updated in a week or two.

Introducing the Good e-Reader Audiobook Reader that turns any eBook into an audiobook! This is the first Android app in the world that forgoes the standard text to speech engine and employs Amazon Polly, which is what Alexa is built on. It will read all of your e-Books aloud. While you are reading, the text in the eBook is highlighted in real time, so you can follow along or simply listen on your smartphone or tablet. You can side-load in your own EPUB/MOBI/PRC/FB2 books into your device and choose from over 28 different languages.

Individual audio books sold by companies like Audible, Kobo and Google are expensive; you will pay on average between $25 to $45 per title. If you like to listen to audiobooks while going to sleep or working out, it can become a very expensive habit. Good e-Reader is different, you can load in any ebook and it will be read aloud by the best voice assistant in the world.

Amazon Polly is the premier voice assistant in tech; it is what the Amazon Echo is based on. Polly sounds more natural than SIRI or Google Voice Assistant. Polly is the perfect narration tool for readers who want their books read aloud and don’t want the standard robotic voice that breaks reading immersion. Good e-Reader is the first Android app that employs Polly in this manner.

Key Features

• Turn any eBook into an audiobook
• Immersion Reading: Text is highlighted when the audiobook is playing.
• Audio Narration available in over 28 different languages and 12 male & female voices.
• Collection Management.
• Dynamic Home Screen: Keeps track of all of your ebooks.
• Built in file manager to import in your favorite Books or use Dropbox or Google drive.
• Supported eBook formats: EPUB, MOBI, PRC, FB2, PDF.
• Bright and Vibrant eBook cover art.
• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime.
• Easy navigation with quick touch actions and a large visual interface.
• High quality mp3 sound.
• A better reading experience than Moon+ Reader, FBREADER, Aldiko, Cool Reader, AlReader, Nook, or Laputa.

WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
• Timeline: A Novel by Michael Crichton

UPGRADE TO PREMIUM

Good e-Reader is a free app and your support allows us to keep on enhancing the app with new features. A one time fee of $9.99 grants you access to:

• Remove all advertisements from the home screen and Audio Player.
• Cloud Storage: Bring your library with you to as many devices as you want, including smartphones and tablets. Your reading position and library is preserved. Load once, read anywhere. Cloud Sync needs access to your Google Drive account.

FAQ

What languages do you support?

We support Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian,
Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Turkish, Welsh.

Best way to use Amazon Polly?

If you want to use the Polly system I recommend not using it as soon as you load the book, or it will read everything. Click on Chapter 1 from the table of contents or scroll down to a body of text so Polly can begin speaking properly.

So I can sideload in my EPUB or MOBI DRM-Free books and it will be read aloud?

This is a core tenant on why we spent six months developing the Audiobook Reader. We do not want to lock you into a walled garden or give you any restrictions. You can have your books read aloud or you can just read them.

What is Next?
Upgraded App in the works.

Contact: [email protected]
Learn more about the app - https://audioreader.goodereader.com/

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Variety of Amazon Polly voices that sound natural
  • Good text to speech quality compared to similar apps
Cons
  • App frequently crashes or hangs up during reading
  • Does not remember the reading position after closing
  • Lacks essential features like playback controls (fast forward, rewind, change speed)
  • Unintuitive user interface which makes it difficult to navigate
  • Inconsistent import functionality, often failing to load books correctly
Most mentioned
  • Crashes and stability issues
  • Playback does not continue after chapters
  • Failure to retain reading position
  • Difficulty importing books or reading from certain formats
  • Need for basic features like background reading and better navigation
User reviews
It's currently broken. It'll read a handful of paragraphs and then just stop reading and start skipping paragraphs. Needs ways to go back to previous lines (fast forward and rewind), and also needs a way to continue reading into the next chapter of the book. This app hasn't gotten the updates other TTS apps have, so I'm not super hopeful.
by T Y, 2022-03-17

I just paid for the pro version hoping to be able to use Polly. While I can get one of the installed books that come with the app to read aloud, it is difficult to get started. When I import one of my epub books I can't get the voices to read at all. I can only read the text. No voice works. I paid for the upgrade and I am considerably miffed big time!
by Christine Bennett, 2021-08-26

Good, but needs work. - increasing font size doesn't work - increasing margin adds extra space between paras - voices work well, but pausing is buggy and skips one or two paragraphs ahead - app doesn't remember which books were imported / reading position. Considering the price and voice quality, the app is good but needs working through for the bugs above. I can't find any other apps using Amazon Polly, apart from Evie, which is more expensive
by Nicole DSouza, 2021-06-17
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