re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

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you can get siri to read pdf's on your iPhone.
I've used the hell out of this feature.

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Yup, I use this very regularly.

Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Turn on "Speak Screen".

Open a PDF and swipe down with two fingers from exactly the top middle of the screen about a quarter way down to open the speech play controls and start reading. This is a little tricky to get the hang of, especially on iPhone X. It works amazingly well in the Kindle app (see Meeks' MADM 760 Playing to Win), as it even turns pages for you.

Alternatively, I use an iOS app called GoodReader. Basically turns your iPhone/iPad into a Kindle for reading PDFs, and also lets you highlight text while reading that you can then email yourself a summary of later. Save PDFs from Moodle to Dropbox and then download them with GoodReader. I use it for reading all of our electronic textbooks.

In GoodReader, select text to read, hold the selection for the pop-up menu, and select "Speak," or hold down a blank area of a page and select Speak to read the entire document out loud.

In the summer, another trick I used was emailing textbook PDFs to my Kindle Paperwhite e-reader device. Rotate the screen orientation to landscape for easier reading. Then relax by the pool while enjoying riveting titles like "Principles of Managerial Accounting,"