I have dabbled with the Kindle a bit more and while the text to speech interface is clunky and difficult to access when you not sighted, it is feasible to navigate around. The text to speech in reading the actual books is a separate application. It is very simple and, as Steve has said, only allows you to read from beginning to end of the book. The page forward and page back does not function in this mode. I have not foud out if it is possible to create bookmarks. I am not sure whether Amazon plans to improve the accessibility features or whether they feel they have done sufficient to avoid vomplaints of the device not being accessible. The main readon I like having this device is that it is the only way to buy Kindle books. Some magazines and periodicals seem to only available in Kindle format. These are protected against moving to other formats and in doing so, enabling the text to speech that some publishers block. Al so that they can be read on more accessible devices and, of course, I would never suggest that people went on the web to find ways to do so... On a completely unrelated note... I have really gotten to like the Calibre ebook catalogue software and now keep all of my extensive ebook collection organised with this. It also offers conversion tools for easily changing to other formats, including plain text. Graham -----Original Message----- From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt Sent: 17 July 2011 6:08 PM To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Amazon Kindle Hi Graham, Not only that, there are far fewer books on the iBooks store, than there are on the Kindle store. I love my Kindle. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW Tel: 01438-742286 Mob: 07956334938 Fax: 01438-759589 Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.comproom.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Lewis [gjl] Sent: Tuesday 1 March 2011 09:27 To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Amazon Kindle Thanks. But both these have touch screens which are pretty useless for me. Graham -----Original Message----- From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Megan Bening Sent: 01 March 2011 00:35 To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Re: Amazon Kindle Graham, I would almost think that you would be better off purchasing an iPod touch or iPad to read e-Books. Not only is it completely accessible and can do more than read books, but the accessibility is built into the core of the iPod and just seamlessly interrates with the iBooks application. I have actually read a few books on there, and love the interface. Hope this helps! Megan -----Original Message----- From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Lewis [gjl] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:59 AM To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookcourier] Amazon Kindle While3 I love my bookcourier, its days are numberd. I just bought a Kindle for my (sighted) wife and it seems to have some really nice, if experimental, accessibility features. Has anybody elose gone down this route and doesanybody know if there is a discussion group dedicated to blind access to the kindle? I thought it might provide me access to new books, via the speech-to-text function, but it seems that not all publishers allow this for their books - goodness knows why. I suppose they are afraid that people will use it produce audio books from their copyrighted texts. I can't really see most sighted people wanting to listen to the robot voice. Graham