urday, March 07, 2009 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Kindle 2 petition
Dale,
You have a point there, yes Kindle does use several proprietary formats and
will have access to materials before they get to one of the bat systems.
And yes there is that silly worry about synthetic speech ta
Dale,
You have a point there, yes Kindle does use several proprietary formats and
will have access to materials before they get to one of the bat systems.
And yes there is that silly worry about synthetic speech taking market from
audio books.
Being cheap, I would rarely pay for books I can get f
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From: Tom Fowle
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Kindle 2 petition
It's an interesting situation here, cause the Kindle 2 costs $350.00 or so
and thus is price competative with really accessib
It's an interesting situation here, cause the Kindle 2 costs $350.00 or so
and thus is price competative with really accessible devices like the Victor
Stream and the newere PlexTalk pocket.
of course those require usb download from a computer, but provide access
to a large variety of books in non
There has been a lot of talk recently about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. This
device for reading electronic books has heretofore been totally unusable by a
blind person, but some change appeared to occur when it was announced that the
new version will allow books to be read aloud by synthetic
