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How to use Play next and Add to queue so LuceVoce starts the next book by itself when one ends, and how to reorder or clear the Queue view.

Windows

Yes

Mac

Partly

iPad

Partly

iPhone

Partly

Choose Play next or Add to queue in a book's menu. When the book you are listening to ends, the next one in the queue opens and starts reading by itself.

Add books to the queue

1. In the library, open a book's More menu (the three dots).
2. Choose one:
   • Play next: puts the book at the front of the queue.
   • Add to queue: puts it at the end.

A book that is already in the queue shows Remove from queue instead.

Books, saved web articles and audiobooks can all go in the queue, in any mix. In the Reading List view, Add all to queue queues the whole list in the order shown.

See the queue

Queue is a view in the library's side list, under Reading List, with the number of books waiting. It shows them in the order they will be read, each with its number.

Change the order

• Drag a book by its handle to a new place.
• Or open the book's menu in the queue and choose Move to top, Move up or Move down.
• With a keyboard, focus the handle and use the up and down arrow keys, or Home and End.

To take one book off, choose Remove from queue in its menu. Clear queue empties the whole queue, with Undo in the message that follows. The books stay in your library either way.

When a book ends

The next book opens in place of the one that ended and starts reading at its saved place, or from the start if you had read it to the end. A message says Next: with the title, and Stop pauses it.

A book that can't be opened, for example because its file is missing, is skipped and taken off the queue, and the message names it.

To keep the queue as a plain list that never starts anything by itself, turn off When a book ends, read the next one in the queue in Settings > Voice.

Good to know

• The sleep timer wins: if it stops the reading, the next book does not start. See Set a sleep timer.
• While books are queued, the sleep timer's menu ends with Next in queue and a title, to jump to that book at once.
• The queue is not the Reading List: the queue is an order to read in, the Reading List is what you mean to read soon. See Save web articles and use the Reading List.
• The queue belongs to each device. It is not synced.

Last updated 13 November 2026