Thread: Kindle offers remote kill switch for text-to-speech function?
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Old 05-14-2009, 01:23 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by kamm View Post
And even then if you have a backup of this "updated" ebook, you can disconnect and restore it via USB.
Yes, or just delete the TTS flag which is not encrypted and can be removed without decrypting the ebook.

I suppose that deleting the TTS flag might still be “circumvention” as far as the DMCA is concerned, but Amazon really has not tried very hard to enforce TTS disabling. There is also currently an explicit anti-circumvention exemption for TTS in ebooks, but it is so poorly written that it is difficult to tell if it applies to Kindle ebooks.
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