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Originally Posted by Fourl29
While you do make some fair points, have you actually tried the kindle with calibre, it's a piece of cake to keep your library in both epub and mobi (and they take very, very little space) and sync with the kindle. I think the vast majority here will attest to that. As far as including text to speech or audible support in the kpw, it's a fair point, and I am with you. I too miss both.
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I just installed Kindle for PC and the extension-that-shall-not-be-named last night, and yes, it's pretty easy. It adds steps, but even getting a book out of Amazon's cloud, stripped, converted, and uploaded to Google's cloud for TTS is only going to take about 5 minutes, assuming I have access to my PC. As for audio, I'm not looking for speakers on an ereader; I just wish the Kindle mobile apps supported TTS rather than artificially restricting that feature to the Fire(s). They are, in effect, extorting money from the blind and impaired, along with the rest of us who want TTS.
The improved screen and the presumably smooth operation (including the dynamic refresh in the new screens) are the attraction, but basically everything else is a pain in the tuchus, and most of the business decisions are actively offensive.
I'm hoping B&N drop one more Android reader before the holidays. Even without the Carta technology, as long as it has a decent light and higher PPI (hopefully closer to the Aura than the KPW), I'd snap it up. Well, I'd wait until there was a confirmed method to enable Unknown Sources, then I'd snap it up
Getting Google Play Books on an eInk device would be ideal, with the cross-device syncing and solid TTS--again, not on the device, but synced and ready to go when I pull out my phone or tablet. I'd also rather have a 7" screen, but that's not likely. Honestly the Aura HD would be ideal if not for crippled firmware at such a high price.
I'm not ruling out this new KPW--if I manage it with Calibre, most of the annoyances should fade into the background and it will just be a nice screen to read books on. Meanwhile I'm supporting the company that's doing more than anyone to keep my options so limited
