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Now, If your vision is to the point that it is bad, I still think you would be better served with audiobooks. If you have the basic sense of computing skills which I think most people who are looking for ereaders do. You can simply convert your audio books from disk to MP3 format and sideload them to your device.
If this was going to be my main source of "reading" ( i know that sounds oxymoronish) you do sort of owe it to yourself to seek out the best method. and Having an actually soothing voice for reading your audio books is a much more viable alternative the "robot" voice the kindle offers.
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The beauty of test to speech is that you can listen to books when there is no audio book available. Since a large percentage of books are not turned into audio books, this is a great feature.
TTS is great for a visually impaired student because it means that they do not have to worry about waiting for someone to read the book for them to listen to on tape if the book is available on Kindle. TTS is great for someone who is in the hospital and cannot focus long enough to read themselves but wants to continue to "read" a book.
I have not seen the new K3 long enough to know if this is the case but I believe that I read that you can now use TTS for all of the menu screens as well so that someone with a visual impairment can make their way into their audio books as well as regular books that they might need TTS to read.
It is a very understated feature, one that makes it a winner for people whose kids have learning disabilities or for anyone with a serious eye problem.
As for touchscreen technology, I have a feeling that Amazon could add it if it really wanted to. It was in their original design and they moved away from it. I don't think that it is all that difficult to engineer given that it is available on so many devices. Amazon has not added it because there is not a large enough demand for it that not having it has hurt sales. So I have difficulty buying that one is technologically more advanced then the other.