Ron Charles is the editor of Book World and host of TotallyHipVideoBookReview.com. My wife likes to drive. I like to read aloud. So, she takes me places, and I take her places. It's a match made ...

Amazon previously purchased Audible's audio book service, so when I saw the news in an Amazon newsletter, I figured there would be some fee to have Alexa read content aloud. Nope, there's no charge.

The Google Play Books app was recently updated with a "Read Aloud" feature for Android devices. Once enabled, your Android device will read the text of books acquired from Google Play Books.