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Originally Posted by Andy Griffith
Wife likes the text to speech feature on the kindle. How well does that work and does it work with all books? Does it sound like a gps voice and is it pretty accurate in the translation? Can she start out reading a book, then continue the book by listening to it during the drive, then switch back to reading when at her destination?
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As synthesized voices go, it's more realistic than Stephen Hawking's and kind of like what you might hear using a Mac's built-in Text to Speech function. Pronunciation-wise, it does okay on most of the books I've ever tried it on. There's a choice of male and female voices and you can adjust the speed it reads at.
You can use it on any DRM book which allows text-to-speech (some publishers deliberately disable it, but you can tweak the AZW files to allow it), any non-DRM book, and any other plain text document you put on your Kindle.
Your wife will have no problems switching between listening and reading, as the Kindle automatically flips the pages of the book as it reads along.
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Originally Posted by Andy Griffith
If I get in bed with amazon/kindle, does that mean all the books I've purchased could not be used on a nook should I decide to change to the nook or other reader later?
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Basically, unless you end up buying DRM-free books which you can convert, or are willing to learn to remove the DRM from your purchased books (and still convert), then no, they won't be compatible. The Nook uses a different file format and DRM scheme than the Kindle does.
You should be aware that B&N also has its own proprietary DRM scheme, so that B&N ePubs you get may also not work on other ePub supporting readers should you switch, although there are several models out there which have licensed the B&N DRM.
Also, it's incorporated into the new version of ADE (which all the ePub readers use, including the Nook), and future versions of said other readers may possibly include B&N-DRM support as standard.
Hope this helps.