[access-uk] Re: The Kindle and accessible content
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:59:50 +0100
Martin
Both these books are available on talking book, and the latest Ken Follett,
"Fall of Giants" is available unabridged from Audible.co.uk.
David
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Martin Houghton
Sent: 10 October 2010 10:33
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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