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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
No, you don't digress, you don't simply understand and you (apparently) don't care. E-readers are great for visually impaired people because (1) you can increase the fonts so much that even some people who are legally blind can read them; and (2) e-readers can use text-to-speech to read to people who otherwise can't read themselves. E-readers have allowed a lot of people to take back up reading who had to stop due to declining vision, and there's no point in crippling the device so that it can't be used that way. Even the iPhone has an accessibility mode to help the visually impaired.
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No, I do understand. The Sony is fine for someone visually impaired, but who sees well enough to read on the larger font sizes. It isn't enough for someone who can't read the book titles.
And since the Sony doesn't do text-to-speech at all, that is a non-issue for this device. It isn't meant for the legally blind. The legally blind that want text-to-speech won't be getting a Sony and it has nothing to do with the touch screen.
If vision is so bad you can't see the screen, I can't imagine enjoying text-to-speech via a synthesized voice on a regular basis. Why not just get audiobooks instead and stick them on a cheap MP3 player? Why pay for an ereader where most of the cost is due to the screen *that you can't see*?
-Marcy