To get the list of audio books that have been recently added to BARD. Say “Lady A, recently Added Books.” You can select a book from the list, add it to your Wish list or to one of your bookshelves and play it on your smart speaker. If audio is not yet available, you will get a message saying “audio not yet available.” This is sometimes the case the first two days after a title has been on BARD. These titles can be added to your Wish list to be read at a later time.
Similarly, you can browse BARD for the books that have been read most frequently. Say “Lady A, Most Popular Books.”
Searching for Books
You can search for books by title, author, subject, series, annotation, book number, genre or by narrator. The following list contains examples of the various search types.
“Lady A, books titled Little Women”
“Lady A, search for books by Tom Clancy”
“Lady A, find books about war”
“Lady A, find books about music genre Jazz”
“Lady A, read books with number DB12345”
Refining a Book Search:
When searching for a book, it is possible to add further details to help refine the search. Once you have made your original search, for example, “Find books by Dr. Seuss,” and your Smart Speaker has returned a list of results, you may expand on the query. Say “About fish.” Remember, you may interrupt your smart speaker at any time. You do not need to wait until it finishes speaking. If smart speaker is, for example, listing books by Dr. Seuss, and you know you want books about fish, you may interrupt by saying Lady A, then say “About fish.”