[access-uk] Re: The Kindle and accessible content
- From: "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:12:23 +0100
Hi Martin - that's a good point regarding unabridged format, I too much prefer
the long form of a book. Guess I'm not sure if in the future, Amazon intend to
upgrade the Kindle through firmware upgrades, or from releasing an entirely new
device that answers some of our requirements, so am holding fire, but will be
buying one as a gift for a sighted friend -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Houghton
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Kindle and accessible content
Hello Andy
I have only downloaded a couple of books to my Kindle so far. They are both
recent and very recent books. Both are by Ken Follit and are the two books in
the Pillars of the earth series. I haven't found these books in an unabridged
audio format so it is good to know that I can use the Kindle for books that I
can't find in there entirety anywhere else.
All the best
Martin
From: ANDY COLLINS
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:50 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] The Kindle and accessible content
Hi all -
Out of interest, I've just spent some time searching for 15 ebooks in the
Kindle store of which only 4 had tts enabled!
The titles I deliberately looked for were more recent releases. Given the
results of this piece of research, I have to say I'm very disappointed, so even
if the reader was more accessible, until more authors allow text to speech for
their work, I don't believe the Kindle offers value for money. It looks like
more older titles are available, but even there, most still are not.
I can't understand the thinking of authors who refuse tts access to their
books, I wonder what they are afraid of? -
It is true to say that if one is not too fussy about what one reads, just
wanting to find something for free, or that has tts accessability, then there
may well be enough to go at, but for me, I don't wish to waste my time reading
just for readings sake, there's loads of great material out there, and I for
one, want greater access to it!
Andy
Other related posts:
