How do I get my ipad to read to me?

Found this, hope it helps, i was telly happy to find:

I realize I am a little late as this is an old post, but YES... and it will turn the page for you as well! I just realized it could be done and did it today. We own several kindle models, an iPad mini, an iPad 2 and an iPad Air. I like each for various reasons and our kids have preferences for various reasons, too but my favorite feature for kindles was allowing the book to read to me as I like having my hands free at times to do other things. Siri does a pretty good job. I have heard people say Siri reading is monotone but it isn't really anymore monotone than with my Kindle Gen 2 when it read or when my Kindle Fire HD reads. In fact, some words my Kindle Fire HD can't seem to pronounce correctly. LOL.

Here is how..

CLICK

general-

accessibility-

accessibility shortcut-

make sure VOICE OVER is selected under "triple-click.."

CLICK to OPEN

kindle app -

CLICK to OPEN

your book -

TRIPLE-CLICK the HOME button

TWO-FINGER-CLICK the TEXT and slide your fingers down the screen.

Siri will begin reading to you! :)

At the end of the page, the page will turn and continue reading the next page without you having to do a thing. I suppose it will finish the entire book for you, if you want to let it.

When you want to stop, Triple-Click the HOME button again.

All the best Suz

Suz,

I tried these steps within iBooks on my iPadAir, but I cannot get it to read past the highlighted paragraph if I double click and slide the finger down the screen. Without turning on Accessibility, it will only read one page and won't turn the page. My iMac will read all the way through an iBook, but iPad and iPhone will not.

There are some childrens books in iBooks that will read along with you or read to you but it needs to be supported in the book. Ther is an app that can download free audiobooks of books that are in public domain. It is called simply audiobooks and there is a free version on the app store. I believe there kindle had the ability to read any book to you but authors threw fits over that since they sell audiobooks for more than you pay for the book.

Yes, voiceover will read any text on the screen, but you can't set it to read an entire book. You would need to manually turn pages. This is not something you are going to use to listen to audio books in the car, for example. I haven't messed too much with voice over, however it seems to be rather annoying to control the iPad while it is turned on. Setting it to turn on and off with three taps of the home button makes navigation better, but I don't see this as a good audio book alternative.

Go to app store and search Audiobooks for the good alternative I suggested. I also pointed out that iBooks supported this but that there wasn't much of a selection. Try reading a book with VoiceOver.

I was merely pointing out that VoiceOver isn't likely to work the way he wants although it does read just about any text off the screen.

I had this same question and I followed the info stated to you by others. I have a book that I am listening to on my iPAD as I am typing this. Some how I hit some keys and went into the Bible that I am listening to and I do not have to turn the page so far. As soon as I find out what I did I will post it for you.

You can use Settings > General > Accessibility to have anything on the iPad read out loud.

Then what is a good audiobook alternative?

The OP was asking about ePub, not audiobook.

I am simply pointing out one option which is already there.