Amazon owns my Echo, I’m just feeding it
It’s no secret that voice assistants are a Trojan Horse. You “buy” a voice assistant like an Echo Dot or a Google Home, and you plug it in and give it your Wi-Fi password. But you don’t “own” it like you own a computer. The software is controlled entirely by Amazon or Google or some other company.
So, I bought a Trojan Horse in December as a little self-gift for Christmas: an Echo Dot.
Amazon’s audiobooks
On the evening I set up my Echo Dot, the first thing I wanted to do was listen to an audiobook. Being an Audible junkie makes the Echo an easy fit into my life. Saying, “Alexa, play an audiobook” will simply resume whatever book I was last listening to on my phone.
I have a lot of books in my library that have only a chapter or two...