Is it possible to buy recently released books as unprotected EPUB files?
My sister has visual problems and needs to have books read out. When I got a Kindle, we both thought the Text-to-Speech and Voice Guide features would enable her to use the Kindle without having to look at the screen. But Text-to-Speech isn't really good enough for those who can't use the screen - you can't slow the voice down, you can't repeat a word or a sentence, and the cursor doesn't follow the voice, so it's not easy to stop it and take it back to an earlier sentence you'd like to have read again.
Her alternative would be to listen to EPUB books on her VoiceNote device (a little computer with a keyboard but no screen that reads text to her). Its reading software is much more usable, but it will only read unprotected EPUB books.
As far as I can see, that would mean she could only use EPUBs from places like Project Gutenberg, ie old books. But she really wants to be able to read recently published books (mainly non-fiction, in particular history). Am I right in thinking that these new books would all be protected EPUBs?
Or is there another ereader available in the UK with better text-to-speech capabilities than the Kindle? I looked at the Sony ereaders, but they don't seem to have text-to-speech.
Any suggestions would be welcome! She just wants the same as the rest of us, the ability to read the latest books.
