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Spotify unveiled Page Match on Thursday.
The new feature simplifies switching between audiobook and physical book.
Spotify will begin selling physical books on the app.
Spotify is amping up its reading offerings. The streaming giant introduced a new feature, Page Match, on Thursday that simplifies switching between audiobooks and physical books. It will also sell physical books on the app through a partnership with independent bookseller Bookshop.
Page Match makes it easy to go from a page in an audiobook to the same page in a physical book -- and vice versa. By scanning the page of a printed book or ebook, users can easily navigate to that page in Spotify's audiobooks.
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As someone who has been using Spotify's 15 monthly hours of free audiobook time to read new titles, this feature feels like it was made for me. I love listening to audiobooks on the go, like on the subway commute to and from work, or while I'm doing cardio at the gym. But once I get home from a busy day, I try to unplug from my screens and will wind down by reading the physical version of that same book (if I happen to have it). I've done this several times since discovering Spotify's breadth of audiobook offerings.
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