The Library

Open The Library, or use the Library tab on iPhone.

One shelf on the website and iPhone

Browse the whole collection in one list. Search by title, place, station or subject. Use Format for text, audio or video, Type for newspapers, books, radio and other kinds, and Decade for the period you want. Choose Recently added or Title order. Load more items keeps your filters and adds the next results. Clear filters returns to the whole collection.

On the website, folders and filing are under Browse folders and manage filing. Your playlists and saved shelf open separately when you need them. In iPhone TestFlight 2.2.7 (328), Other library views holds folders, uploads and collections. Continue and Family history stay near the top. Both versions keep existing item folders and playback positions.

Reviewed newspaper editions include readable text and an original scan in the source links when available. OCR uncertainties and editions without a scan are identified in the reading text. Family history holds the family tree, photographs and family records. Members with the Family feature pack can read the default history as guests; a matched family account keeps its own relationship view. Sensitive discoveries keep their existing reader permissions, and a separately owned archive keeps its named readers.

Talk to the Librarian

On the website, choose Talk to the Librarian to open a conversation with Mrs. Olivia Witherspoon. Speak or type using the usual chat, microphone, call and voice controls. She has a voice from the existing website catalog; your saved voice choice for her takes priority.

Tell her a title, a few words, a brand, a station, a place, a decade, or something you remember. She can search the collection, offer likely matches with Library links, ask follow-up questions, and discuss an item. On an item's player page, Ask Mrs. Witherspoon about this item opens her chat with a question ready to send.

Her searches use catalog facts, available source descriptions and existing scene notes. She can read passages from text books. Recordings without descriptions or transcripts may need more clues; a possible match is not a verified identification. She searches with your account's access: the family's shared collection and your own uploads. She cannot change or delete your collection.

Other characters can ask her too. When you ask Kiana or another character what the Library has, or about a book, tape, old broadcast or commercial, that character can check with Mrs. Witherspoon and pass her answer along. She searches with your access, and she cannot save requests or change anything when another character asks.

Ask for something the library does not have

Tell Mrs. Witherspoon what you are looking for: a book, audiobook, radio show, tape, commercial, TV show, movie, song or anything else. A title helps, but a few remembered details are enough. She searches first. If it is not here, she saves a library request and gives you its link. Requests are for family library members.

Kade reviews every request. A saved request is not a promise that something can be found. When Kade fills your request, or finds it cannot be filled, you hear about it: a phone notification if Kade-AI notifications are on, a browser notification if you allowed them, and a short note from the next character you talk to. The iPhone app does not have a requests screen yet; on the phone, ask Mrs. Witherspoon about your requests.

On the website, the Library requests section of the Library's main page lists your requests, with new updates marked. Open one to read its history, add details, or cancel it. Asking again for something you already requested adds to the same request instead of making a second one.

The iPhone Library also offers Talk to the Librarian, which opens Mrs. Witherspoon in the usual chat and voice screen.

Mrs. Witherspoon has her own animated portrait during website voice-message playback, with blinking, expressions and speaking mouth shapes. It uses the same animation controls and reduced-motion setting as the main companions.

Reading voice and text

Text books have a Delivery setting: Steady, Balanced, or Lively. The website saves it in this browser. The new iPhone TestFlight update saves it in the library voice picker on your phone, separately from your companions. Preview auditions use the same choice. Recorded books keep their original narrator.

Marked DAISY and EPUB page numbers are left out of speech, including page markers inside a sentence. Existing books update when reopened. Ordinary numbers in the story stay. A number that was typed into the prose without a page marker may still be read.

Follow along offers larger, more widely spaced text with a highlighted current passage. This is passage highlighting, not word-by-word tracking, and does not move VoiceOver focus.

Read along

On a text book's player on the website, Open reading view shows the book's own words full screen, to read on your own or while it is narrated. Narration tags never appear on screen. Under Text size, colors and spacing you can choose text size up to Largest, colors including white on black and yellow on black, line spacing, letter and word spacing, line width, and a typeface such as Lexend or OpenDyslexic. Your choices are remembered for your account on that device, and the view starts from the contrast, font and spacing you chose in the chat's Settings.

A reading page holds about 18 minutes of narration. Play narration works inside the view. Previous page, Next page and the Chapter list move you on your own; the narration keeps its own place. Show where the narration is jumps to the passage being read, and Turn pages with the narration keeps the view with it while you stay at that passage. When the narration turns the page, focus moves to the new page's heading. Escape or Close reading view returns you to the player.

Accessible editions often begin with a distribution notice. The Library leaves those notices out of the reading view and the narration. The book's opening instead says it was produced for people with bona fide print disabilities.

The new iPhone player

In the new TestFlight update, Play or Pause stays at the bottom center, Back on its left and Forward on its right. A tap moves ten seconds. Hold either seek button for a menu of 10, 20, 30 seconds, one minute, or two minutes; VoiceOver also offers the larger jumps as actions. Chapter buttons remain separate above this row. Recorded audio and video have an adjustable position slider.

Text-book seeking uses the generated recording's time. Revisiting cached passages is quicker; jumping into a passage that has not been made yet can take a moment. Wait for the jump announcement before seeking again. Your place and new bookmarks include the position within the passage.

Find something

Use the combined shelf's search, type and decade filters. On the website, choose Family library or Your uploads. Your saved shelf keeps items you added or opened; removing an item from it leaves the shared collection intact.

For local material, choose Springfield, the Ozarks & Missouri in folder browsing, or search a place, year or station in the combined shelf. Other stations’ presentation lives under Broadcast Archives.

Add a file

Share a file from another app to Kade-AI and choose the Library, or use the Add controls. DAISY text and recorded-audio ZIPs use the same book importer. Recorded DAISY plays its original narrator, in the publication’s order, with chapter navigation and saved progress. On the website, audiobook ZIPs may be up to 4 GB (8 GB expanded). ZIPs containing MP3 or M4B recordings stay together as one audiobook, in numbered file order. Text-book imports remain limited to 256 MB. The current iPhone book-upload picker still has a 256 MB limit; use the website for larger ZIPs. Encrypted audio and missing recordings cannot be imported. Text books use the voice you select.

For individual audio or video files, choose Add audio or video. Choose a type if you know it; an ordinary recording does not have to be an audiobook. Videos offer Describe this video and What just happened; sound recordings do not need visual descriptions.

Private uploads and family sharing

Your uploads belong to you. Regular members submit items for the librarian to approve; until then they are private. The librarian’s uploads are shared with the Family feature pack by default, with a Keep this upload private control. Uploads from a few trusted family members go into the family library without waiting. Sharing does not give other people your reading progress.

Who can open the family library

The shared collection is for members with the Family feature pack. Family accounts that already had access keep it. A newer account can search and play its own uploads until Kade turns on the pack for it, and Mrs. Witherspoon explains the access requirement. Kade manages this in the Family feature pack section of the Library page, which only she sees.

Filing corrections

Use Suggest a different shelf on an item. The librarian can move it without uploading it again. TubeVault’s source paths stay attached for duplicate detection. Reviewed titles and clear product matches keep toy ads, medicines, household products and recordings on the right shelves. Familiar shows are grouped by show, with their source network retained. Custom filing rules stay yours; ambiguous titles stay for review. Inspirational story collections have their own nonfiction shelf.

Donate from a Windows computer

Download Kade Library Uploader for Windows (EXE, 17 MB) · Download the app and guide together (ZIP, 17 MB)

Version 1.4 for Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Unpacked DAISY books need no manual zipping: choose Add folder and select the SD-card folder containing your books, or a single book folder. Each recognized book becomes one queue item with its text, navigation, pictures, and audio kept together. Review titles in Edit details. The app creates one temporary ZIP at a time on your PC and leaves the SD card unchanged. Keep the card connected until uploads finish and allow free space for the largest book. Audiobook MP3/M4B and DAISY ZIPs can be up to 4 GB; text-book files remain limited to 256 MB. Books, audio and video upload directly to storage. Book processing continues separately after the file arrives. If interrupted, choose Start / resume with the same file to check the same import. Older Check library entries still need a manual check before retrying. Finish or pause current uploads and close the older uploader before opening this version; your saved queue is retained. Uploads and Your library now use standard Windows list boxes with complete spoken row labels. The first row is selected automatically, refreshes keep your selection, and Your library loads when its tab opens. Open the EXE and sign in with your own platform account. Choose Donate for review or Keep private, add files or a folder, check Edit details, then choose Start / resume. It keeps Books, Audio, and Videos separate and lets you organize your own uploaded items. Ordinary-member donations remain private until reviewed; an administrator can publish directly.

MP3 audiobook ZIPs in TubeVault

TubeVault's updated library helper, version 1.8, sends the MP3 or M4B chapters directly to storage and keeps them together as one audiobook in numbered order. Choose the audiobook ZIP folder with Books enabled, then Send. Progress names each chapter. Send again after an interruption to resume the same audiobook; completed chapters are retained. Keep the original ZIP and the helper's resume folder unchanged until finished. The original files stay on your computer. Sharing happens after all chapters arrive.

This avoids the website's five-minute incoming-transfer limit that can appear as an upstream error on large ZIPs. DAISY and other supported books now also upload directly to storage, then finish importing separately. Windows uploader 1.4 and iPhone TestFlight 298 use direct storage too. Website and Android Library uploads currently need a storage configuration repair; use the Windows uploader or updated iPhone app while that repair is pending. Audio and video also bypass the website for file transfers; large recordings use multipart uploads. Other connection failures can still occur, but these updated paths avoid Railway’s incoming-body timeout. The TubeVault executable version and library-helper version are separate; an existing upload run keeps its loaded helper until the next Send.

The app saves its queue and supports keyboard navigation with native Windows controls. F1 opens its full guide; Alt+M goes to status messages. Large media uploads can resume completed parts while their links remain valid. If a book says Check library, look for it before retrying to avoid a second copy. The app never moves or deletes files on your computer. No Python installation is needed. This initial release is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher prompt.

Pictures and motion

The library illustration is decorative. Lilly now has her own speaking and blinking portrait. The existing portrait and reduced-motion settings still apply; pictures never replace labels or screen-reader controls.