Reading together

Read-along, Pip's voice, recording your own, reading offline and printing a book.

11 articles

In the order most people need them

  1. Read-along and the tools inside a book

    How a book reads itself aloud with each word lit up, what tapping a word does, which age groups get a recorded voice, and what happens when your child reads aloud.

  2. Pip's voice

    Why Pip is quiet until someone switches its voice on, how you or your child can switch it, and how it differs from the voice that reads the book.

  3. Having a chapter book read aloud

    How to give a chapter book a recorded voice with "Have it read aloud", what it uses from your allowance, how long it takes and what changes afterwards.

  4. Recording your own voice for a book

    How to read one of your child's books aloud page by page, how long each recording can be, what we keep and for how long, and how to replace or remove a recording.

  5. Paper, spacing and the night light

    What your child can change inside a book, such as the paper color, the spacing and the night light, and which settings stay with you.

  6. Listening to books in a row

    How your child can listen to a few books with the screen dark, how "Books that can play in a row" decides when the story stops to ask, and what happens at the end of a book.

  7. Questions at the end of a book

    How many questions each age group gets, what happens when your child picks a wrong answer, and where you can see how the questions went.

  8. Keeping books on a tablet to read offline

    How your child keeps a book on a device so it opens with no internet, how many books fit, and what to know about kept books on a shared tablet.

  9. Printing a book or saving it as a PDF

    How to print one of your child's finished books, or save it as a PDF file, using your browser's own print window.

  10. Sending a book to a Yoto player

    How to connect your Yoto account, send a finished book to it, take a book back and disconnect, and exactly what Yoto receives.

  11. Your child's shelf and the shared library

    Where your child's own books live, how the shared library works, what your child can type into its search box, and how books are taken off a shelf or put away.

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