Yes, the application is free, and as I mentioned, you can find some free books in the Kindle Store. You do need an Amazon account to register the app and get books from the store, even the free ones. Gary King w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx . ----- Original Message ----- From: Yadiel Sotomayor To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released Is the aplication free? From: Gary King Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:16 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Accessible Kindle for PC App Released If you've been waiting for an accessible Kindle app for the PC, you're in luck! Go to http://blindbargains.com and read the entry under Latest Bargains. The link will take you to the Amazon page that describes the app and how to download and use it. Read through all of the Help links, and you will know all that I do about it. The app download is 231 MB, so if you have a dialup connection, forget it! It has been tested with JAWS and NVDA. A screen reader must be detected by the app in order to enable text-to-speech on all Kindle books. As you may know, authors have disabled text-to-speech on the Kindle itself for many of their titles. At least, we will be able to read them on the computer with this app. You can read the books a page at a time or continuously with a male or female voice. Navigation only goes down to the sentence level, so you can't read word by word or have words spelled. I hope this will change in a later version. I would suggest that if you want to try the program that you get one of the free books available from the Kindle Store. I visited the Free Collections link and chose a book from the Limited Promotions section. There were 143 selections to choose from. I just made sure that I looked for the ones that were $0.00. These are my early impressions of the program, and at least I think they have made a good start toward accessibility. We will need to give them feedback to insure that improvements will be made. Gary King mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Yadiel J. Sotomayor E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx