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Originally Posted by rkomar
I vaguely remember a few years ago that Kindle e-readers had TTS, but introduced support for a flag inside ebooks that allowed publishers to disable TTS for it (so as not to compete with their lucrative audio books). I remember a lot of griping at the time, but I don't know how things ended up because I've never owned a Kindle e-reader. Do they still have this feature enforced in Kindle ereaders and apps, and do publishers still turn TTS off on ebooks?
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Yep, I run into it all the time. I listen to a lot of books on my daily commute. I have a Kindle Keyboard (3rd gen Kindle) and love that I can use TTS to listen to the book in my car and then pick up *reading* right where the TTS left off and vice versa. If you look at any kindle-edition of a book on Amazon's website there's a set of specs for the book and one of them is Text-To-Speech Enabled: Yes/No. I buy a lot of books through Amazon and if TTS is disabled I convert the book and strip that block off. I'm buying the book, let me do what I want with it.
My Kindle's screen has been doign some strange things lately and is well outside the warranty period so I've started thinking about what I'll get as a replacement, but it's hard to find something new that's e-Ink with TTS support.
