Azore's Speaking Tome (3.5e Spell)

This spell causes the affected volume to read aloud its contents at the rate of up to five pages per minute (half of a page per round), though you may dictate a slower rate if desired. If you wish, you may also designate a specific page on which the spell is to begin, so as to pick up where a previous reading or casting of this spell left off, for example. At any time while the spell lasts, you may stop or resume the effect as a free action.

This spell reads the text exactly as written and does not necessarily help you to understand it (so, for example, a text written in dwarven will only make sense to someone who can normally understand dwarven). Azore’s speaking tome does not use command words or activate any magic effects the text may contain. If the targeted tome does not contain text (if it only has pictures or diagrams, for example), this spell fails.