Spotify is in the news today and not because of yet another price hike, believe it or not. Instead, a new report has uncovered a feature that’s coming soon to Spotify’s audiobooks.
It’s called Page Match and it’s pretty clever – it lets you take a photo of a page in a physical book, and once you do that Spotify will take you to the exact same spot in the audiobook. This lets you easily jump from the audio version to a physical text, if you’re so inclined.
What’s more, it’s bidirectional – so it also lets you know what page in the physical book the place you’re at in the audiobook corresponds to. Page Match has been discovered in code from Spotify’s latest app, but the feature isn’t functional yet. Still, the company is working on it, as the screenshot above proves, so it’s going to be coming soon.
Page Match will only work if you own or unlock the audiobook on Spotify first. Obviously, this will only be available in markets where Spotify offers audiobooks. Interestingly, Amazon has something similar but it only works between audiobooks and ebooks, not physical books.
