Hi Cheryl. Does this help?
From Amazon:
Kindle for Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
You can use many keyboard shortcuts to navigate the Kindle for Mac application.
Anywhere in the Application
• Open Library - Command, ALT, L
• Sync - Command R
Apple Menu Systems
• Kindle for Mac: Preferences - Command ,
• Kindle for Mac: Quit Kindle for Mac - Command Q
• File: Close Book - Command W
• Actions: Sync and Check for New Items - Command R
• Go: Sync to Furthest Page Read - Command R
Library
• Move the focus of the book above the current selection - Up Arrow
• Move the focus of the book to the right of the current selection -
Right Arrow
• Move the focus of the book to the left of the current selection - Left Arrow
• Move the focus of the book below the current selection - Down Arrow
• Scroll the list of books up one page - Page Up, Command, Up Arrow
• Scroll the list of books down one page - Page Down, Command, Down Arrow
• Open selected book (go to last page read)* - Return, Command, O
Reading a Book
• Next Page - Page Down, Command Down Arrow, Enter, Right Arrow,
Space, or Down Arrow
• Previous Page - Shift Enter, Shift Space, Page Up, Command Up Arrow,
Left Arrow, or Up Arrow
• Back - Delete, Backspace
• Increase font size - Command +
• Decrease font size - Command -
• Bookmark - Command D
• Open/Close Notes and Marks - Command B
• Go to Location - Command G
• Search - Command F
• Open Flashcard side panel - Command, Shift, F
• Open and close X-Ray for Textbooks - Command Y (only works on
eligible Textbooks)
• Export to Flashcards from Notebook - Command, Shift, N (when using
the Notebook)
• Export Notes from Notebook - Command, Alt, E (when using the Notebook)
Using Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Speech is only supported with Mac OSX 10.10 or above.
To use these shortcuts, you must enable Text-to-Speech first. Press
Command Tor select the Toolsmenu and choose Start Text-to-Speech.
• Toggle Text-to-Speech - Command T
• Pause or resume reading - Space bar (while in a book)
• Read the current sentence - Command S
• Read the previous sentence - Command, Shift, Up arrow
• Skip forward one sentence - Command, Shift, Down arrow
• Increase speech rate - Shift +
• Decrease speech rate - Shift -
• Toggle continuous reading - Command, Shift, C
• Text-to-Speech Read Instructions - Command I
Note: This feature only works on eligible Kindle content. You can
configure the Text-to-Speech language from the System Preferences on
your computer.
Stay well ... William
On 5/5/18, Cheryl Ann Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all.
Does anybody know if there's a way to get Kindle on the Mac to read
continuously without stopping? I can't even find the documentation that
tells a person that the text to speech does this and I can't figure out
what kind of algorithm it works on - if it stops after so many minutes or
on what basis it stops. I am assuming Amazon has done this to keep people
from recording the books but it is very irritating even though it isn't
hard to resume it. If anybody knows how to override this or can even point
me to documentation that explains this behavior, I would really appreciate
the information.
--
Cheryl
