Start a book on your iPhone and go on from the same sentence on your iPad. iCloud keeps your library, your place in every book and your voice settings the same on both.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson5%58 pagesOct 21
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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen41%212 pagesOct 12
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Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson164 pagesOct 9
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DraculaBram Stoker301 pagesOct 2
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men.
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.
It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays. The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.
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at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.
It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays. The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest.
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper.
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Fig. 1 · iCloud sync
Same book, same sentence.
Paused on the iPhone on the way home, playing on the iPad from the sentence where it stopped. The book, its cover and its place came across through iCloud.
How it works2
Use one Apple Account.
Sign in to iCloud with the same Apple Account on your iPhone and your iPad. There is nothing to turn on in SpeakCove.
Add a book on either.
Import a file, scan pages with the camera or pick a free book. It shows up in the library on the other device, file and all.
Listen, then switch.
SpeakCove saves your place at every sentence. Open the book on the other device, press play, and it reads on from there.
Notes3
One library, two screens
What travels between them.
SpeakCove keeps your library in iCloud. Import a book on your iPhone and it appears on your iPad shortly after, with the file itself, its title, author and cover, and the text recognized from any scanned pages. A free book from the library or a letter you scanned with the camera travels the same way.
Your place goes with the book. As the voice reads, the app saves the page and the sentence it is on,1 so when you open the same book on the other device and press play, it goes on from that sentence, not from the top of the chapter. The voice you chose for that book comes along, and so do three settings: your default voice, your default language and your playback speed.
That suits days that move from room to room. Listen to a chapter on the iPhone on the way home, then carry on with the iPad on the sofa. Or scan a few pages with the phone at your desk and follow them later on the bigger screen.
There is nothing to set up and no SpeakCove account. Sync runs through the private part of your own iCloud account, not through SpeakCove’s servers.2
A few limits are worth knowing. Sync needs a connection on both devices, and a large file takes a while to arrive. Each device remembers on its own which book it played last, so the app opens on that one; the place inside each book is what is shared. Without iCloud everything still works, but the library stays on that one device. And the free web reader is not part of it: it has no account, so there is nothing to sync with.
Details4
Devices
iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later, signed in to the same Apple Account
Runs on
iCloud, in the private database of your account
Library
Every book, document and scan, with its file, title, author, cover and recognized text
Your place
The page and the sentence in each book, saved at every sentence
Per book
The voice and the language set for it
Settings
Default voice, default language, playback speed
Per device
Which book played last, so each device reopens its own
Without iCloud
Everything works; the library stays on that device
Setup
None in the app, and no SpeakCove account
Web reader
Not synced; it runs in the browser without an account
Questions5
Does SpeakCove sync between iPhone and iPad?
Yes. Through iCloud it syncs your library, your place in each book down to the sentence, and your default voice, language and speed.
Do I need a SpeakCove account?
No. Sync uses the iCloud account you are already signed in to, and there is nothing to turn on in the app.
Why hasn’t a book shown up on my other device yet?
Check that both devices use the same Apple Account, are online, and allow SpeakCove to use iCloud in the Settings app. Large files take longer to arrive.
Does the web reader sync with the app?
No. The web reader runs in your browser without an account, so there is nothing to sync. Sync is between the app on your iPhone and iPad.
Try it6
Get SpeakCove on both.
Install the app on your iPhone and your iPad, sign in to the same iCloud, and your books follow you.
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