Interested in ereaders

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:06:31PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Pointless? For most people, perhaps. One use for audio in an eReader
> would be to handle text to speech, or for audio books, for the
> visually impaired.
> 
> I picked up an Android based tablet to allow me to do some of the
> things I used to do on my laptop (which recently failed). I have a
> Sony eReader for reading books as I don't have to worry too much
> about its batteries if I get in to a long session of reading. The
> main reason to read books on a tablet is when you are reading
> something where you want to see the pictures in the book in colour
> (such as when I read the book I have on CSS).
> 
> If I want to listen to MP3's I have my Palm based PDA for that.

I think if you wanted text to speech or audio books, then the ereader
isn't what you were looking for in the first place.  It would make much
more sense to add text to speech to a decent MP3 player instead.

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Len Sorensen
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