Audiobooks

Kevra plays audiobooks in M4B, M4A, MP4, MP3, AAC, OGG, OPUS and FLAC. A folder with several MP3 tracks counts as one audiobook. Audible files (.aax) can't be played: they're encrypted with Audible's DRM.

You add them like any book, from your phone, your clouds or your Audiobookshelf server. In the Library they're under the Audio tab.

The player

There are two styles. Switch between them in Settings → Appearance → Audiobooks → Audiobook player:

• Dial (the default): the cover is a disc. Turn the ring to move through the chapter: while you turn, you see where you'll land and, when you let go, you jump there.
• Classic: big cover and the book's edge, which you can drag to go anywhere. Swipe sideways to switch between the audiobooks you're listening to.

Both have play, back and forward 30 seconds, and at the bottom Speed, Sleep timer, Bookmark, Live page and Read here. Audio keeps playing with your phone locked, and you can control it from the lock screen.

Speed

Tap Speed: it goes from 0.5× to 3× in fine steps. Each book remembers its own, so a slow narrator and a fast one don't make you change it every time. It tells you how much is left at that speed. The speed for books that don't have one yet is set in Settings → Appearance → Audiobooks → Speed for new books.

Sleep timer

Tap Sleep timer and choose End of chapter or a number of minutes. When it runs out, the volume fades out instead of cutting off abruptly. With the Dial style, setting the timer switches the player to Night mode: always dark, and the ring becomes the countdown (turn it for more or less time).

In Settings → Appearance → Audiobooks you also have:

• Shake to extend: shake your phone and the timer starts again.
• Automatic sleep timer at night: if you press play during the hours you choose, it turns on by itself.

Getting around the audiobook

In the player's ⋯ menu:

• Chapters: jump to any of them.
• Back to where you were: the places you jumped away from, in case it was by accident.
• Bookmarks: the ones you added with Bookmark. They sync across your devices.
• Save quote: saves the sentence you just heard and, if you have the ebook, highlights it there.
• Car mode: huge buttons; swipe sideways to change chapter.

From audio to ebook, and back

If you have the same title as an audiobook and as an ebook (EPUB), it's a single read:

• In the player, Read here or Continue in the book take you to the ebook at the point you're listening to.
• In the reader, the Listen button offers Continue in the audiobook from that page.
• If, when you open one of them, the other was further ahead, Kevra takes you there and gives you Undo.

On iPhone, Kevra listens to the last snippet on the phone itself (the audio isn't sent anywhere) and narrows it down to the exact sentence. Otherwise it uses a close estimate. With abridged audiobooks or a different translation it may not find the spot.

Live page shows the ebook's text following the audio, with the sentence being read highlighted, and So far, a spoiler-free summary of what you've heard.

Plus plan: the So far summary comes from the reading companion and is part of Plus.

Related

• Read aloud (when you don't have the audiobook)
• Your Audiobookshelf server
• Send a book to your devices