Now when I am getting ready in the morning, I just say “Alexa, connect to my phone” and wait for her to say that she’s connected. Yay!Īll you have to do is say “Alexa, pair Bluetooth” and Alexa will reply with “Searching…” Then you open the Bluetooth settings on your mobile device and look for an Echo-XXX entry in the devices list, click on it to connect and you’re done! Alexa will confirm that the connection has been made and then any sound that normally comes from your mobile device will now play through the Echo until you disconnect. But a little more Googling helped me learn that I can pair the Echo with my phone and use it just like any other Bluetooth speaker. But as you will notice, Libby isn’t included in that list. Through the Alexa app, you can set the Echo Dot to play music from other certain other streaming apps like Pandora, Spotify, etc. Then a light bulb flicked on in my brain and I thought, what if I could use the Echo Dot as a stand-alone Bluetooth speaker? Is this possible? A quick Google and I learned that yes, it definitely is possible! Sure, I could use a line out cable to plug my phone into the speaker, but the way my Echo Dot is mounted in my bathroom (see lead image) the 3.5mm line out jack is blocked – and who wants to use cables anyway, it’s 2019 for goodness sake! If only there was a way I could listen to Libby through the Echo Dot like listening to an Audible book. I thought about buying a small waterproof Bluetooth speaker than I could put in the shower with me, but I already have a speaker in my bathroom – an Amazon Echo Dot which is actually what started my new found love of audiobooks in the first place. I have tried listening through the built-in speaker on my phone while getting ready for work in the mornings, but the Huawei speaker’s max volume setting isn’t loud enough for me to hear over the sound of the shower and the bathroom fan. That’s not much time to get through a full-length novel in the time allotted for a Libby loan. The problem is that these brief sessions only allow me about 40 minutes of listening per day. I listen to the audiobooks through my phone ( Huawei P30 Pro) and the car stereo in my MINI Cooper while I’m driving to and from work each day.
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