diff --git a/docs-developers/architecture/cross-repo-contract.md b/docs-developers/architecture/cross-repo-contract.md
index 45298e61..81c682f7 100644
--- a/docs-developers/architecture/cross-repo-contract.md
+++ b/docs-developers/architecture/cross-repo-contract.md
@@ -260,8 +260,15 @@ home only after a tokenless `GET <home>/api/v1/server` answered with this connec
 its `server_id` matched.** The web player never switches (it is served same-origin).
 Details: [Connect and home/away addresses](../frontend/connect-and-addresses.md#home-and-away-addresses).
 
+**Listen in player.** The admin console's book page mints a token for its own user
+(`POST /auth/pair`) and opens the same-origin
+`/web/connect?token=…&sid=…&uid=…&book=<library_id>&path=<rel_path>` in a new tab; the
+player skips the exchange when it is already signed in as `uid` on `sid`, and ends the flow
+on that book (rebuilt with `bookHref`, never a URL from the link). Details:
+[Connect and onboarding](../frontend/connect-and-addresses.md#a-link-that-names-a-book).
+
 **A change requires:** the scheme, the query keys (`server`, `token`, and the optional
-`home`, `away`), and the `/web/connect` route path are a contract - change the server
+`home`, `away`, `sid`, and `uid`, `book`, `path`), and the `/web/connect` route path are a contract - change the server
 emitter, the parser, and `app.json` together, or pairing breaks.
 
 ## 8. Capability flags: `GET /api/v1/server`
diff --git a/docs-developers/frontend/connect-and-addresses.md b/docs-developers/frontend/connect-and-addresses.md
index 9d497e82..0ee9ef0a 100644
--- a/docs-developers/frontend/connect-and-addresses.md
+++ b/docs-developers/frontend/connect-and-addresses.md
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ the server's own name when the flow knows it (the probe, the redeem payload's
 addresses the link (`linkAddresses`) and the answer taught, merged there once
 (`mergeAddresses`). The device's **first**
 connection then shows `/connect/ready`; an added server goes straight back with
-`leaveOnboarding()`; and whenever the person listening is in kids mode afterwards (a
+`leaveOnboarding()`; a link that names a book ends on its page instead
+([below](#a-link-that-names-a-book)); and whenever the person listening is in kids mode afterwards (a
 kid's account signing in, below) it goes straight to `/kids` instead, with no "Your
 library is ready.". A link's exchange that fails is said in the app's words, never the
 server's (`apiErrorKind`): 429 "Too many tries. Wait a few minutes and try again.", a
@@ -69,6 +70,36 @@ refused link (expired, used up, unknown, malformed) "This pairing link has expir
 was already used...", a 5xx "The server couldn't finish pairing...", and no answer
 "Could not reach the server to finish pairing.".
 
+### A link that names a book
+
+A connect link can name a book to end on: `book=<library_id>&path=<rel_path>`, with
+`uid=<user id>`, the user its token was minted for, beside `token` and `sid`. The admin
+console's **Listen in player** builds one (`/web/connect?token=…&sid=…&uid=…&book=…&path=…`,
+same origin); nothing else does yet. `parseConnectBook` (`src/lib/paths.ts`) reads it: `book`
+must be a positive integer and `path` non-empty, else the link names no book and the flow
+ends as it always does. It travels on the `PairingScan` as `book` and `userId`, filled the
+same way from the route's params and from a pasted link (`parsePairingScan`), so a pasted
+link behaves as the opened one. The destination is rebuilt with `bookHref`, never followed
+as a URL from the link, so there is no open redirect. Then:
+
+- **Already signed in as that user there** (`signedInAs` in `connect-model.ts`: a
+  connection on the `sid` server whose `user.id` is `uid`, its token not refused, no
+  `needsReconnect`): no exchange. `useLinkPairing.pair` checks this first (reading the
+  connections again when the session read failed at launch, as `finishConnect` does),
+  then asks `GET /me` with the stored token at the connection's own address (never the
+  link's), and ends on the book; the unused token expires by itself, and no second
+  session (or "new device" notice) is made at each press. A 401 there (the token was
+  revoked) falls through to the exchange; a server that doesn't answer still opens the
+  book. "Add someone" never skips, so the exchange switches to that person.
+- **Otherwise** the token is exchanged as for any link, and `finishConnect`'s `book` ends
+  the flow on the book's page (`router.dismissTo(bookHref(…))`) instead of
+  `/connect/ready` or Home, first connection or not.
+
+Both end through `endConnect` (`finish-connect.ts`), the flow's one ending, so kids mode
+still wins (`/kids`) either way.
+
+Native is unchanged: no link it receives carries `book`.
+
 **Kids mode never runs the flow**: `src/app/connect/_layout.tsx` is the one gate (see
 [Kids mode](kids-mode.md#the-route-and-its-guard)). A kid's account placed for the
 first time on this device starts in kids mode (`kidsOnForKidAccount`: see
diff --git a/docs-developers/server/api/reference.md b/docs-developers/server/api/reference.md
index 9ec69520..14b17cca 100644
--- a/docs-developers/server/api/reference.md
+++ b/docs-developers/server/api/reference.md
@@ -366,7 +366,8 @@ on a server with that capability - the same shape as `/auth/exchange`.
 device" from an existing session. No request body. Response `200`: a
 `PairingPayload` (same shape as `/auth/redeem`, without the invite budget fields). Its
 token is single-use and lasts 10 minutes (`pairingTTL`), so the player counts down from
-when the payload arrived. A kid's account (a [household member](#household-members)
+when the payload arrived. The admin console's **Listen in player** uses it too, to sign the
+web player in as the admin in a new tab. An API key gets `403`. A kid's account (a [household member](#household-members)
 with `member_kind: "kid"`) gets `403` `code: "kid_account"`: its owner sets up its
 devices with [`POST /me/household/members/{id}/pair`](#post-apiv1mehouseholdmembersidpair).
 
diff --git a/docs-developers/server/web-ui.md b/docs-developers/server/web-ui.md
index a4de8af2..5e882f9d 100644
--- a/docs-developers/server/web-ui.md
+++ b/docs-developers/server/web-ui.md
@@ -408,7 +408,16 @@ CSP-sensitive work against a real build served by Go. The console's own gate is
   leaves the dialog open),
   listeners, shares
   and the "Files on disk" section with the disabled on-disk rename. The more
-  menu's "Read the files again" calls `POST …/book/rescan`. `?match=1` opens the
+  menu's "Read the files again" calls `POST …/book/rescan`. **Listen in player**
+  (shown while `GET /server`'s `web_player` is on) opens the book in the web
+  player in a new tab as the same user: the click opens the tab at once
+  (`window.open('', '_blank')`, so no pop-up blocker stops it; its `opener` is
+  cleared), `POST /auth/pair` mints a single-use, 10-minute pairing token, and
+  the tab goes to the same-origin `/web/connect?token=&sid=&uid=&book=&path=`
+  (`playerConnectUrl` in `book-model.ts`; never the payload's `web_url`, whose
+  base may be the `public_url`, another origin). A failed call closes the tab
+  and toasts. What the player does with the link is in
+  [Connect and onboarding](../frontend/connect-and-addresses.md#a-link-that-names-a-book). `?match=1` opens the
   match dialog on arrival (Health's "Review match"); closing it drops the param.
   The Chapters card opens with the **Community chapters** panel
   (`features/book/community-chapters.tsx`; its words and its one action come
diff --git a/docs-users/admin/books.md b/docs-users/admin/books.md
index e8cb0559..8779e08b 100644
--- a/docs-users/admin/books.md
+++ b/docs-users/admin/books.md
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ The buttons there are:
 - **Match with community metadata** (it reads **Compare with community** once
   the book has an ASIN or ISBN) - see
   [Matching with community metadata](#matching-with-community-metadata).
+- **Listen in player** - opens the book in the web player in a new tab,
+  already signed in as you, so you can check how it sounds or test its
+  chapters without signing in again. If the browser blocks the new tab, the
+  console says so: allow pop-ups for your server's address and click it again.
+  It only shows when your server has the web player.
 - **Change cover** - see [Covers](#covers).
 - The **⋯** menu (**More book actions**) - **Copy path**, **Add to a
   share...** and **Read the files again**, which re-reads this book's files