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Originally Posted by PoP
You are certainly right Hitch. Respect. You know your business.
Rest of this post is just to share my experience and is off topic wrt the OP.
This is epub3 stuff was new to me so I wanted to try for myself on some sample books. I used Chrome+Readium today.
My initial thought was « Why would anyone use this? If you listen to a book, this is because you can't read it, you are in your car or jogging with your earphones on. If you are reading the ebook, then you don't need to be distracted by a narrator. This is still one more silly epub3 audio/video feature that can only attract geeks like me »
Turns out I was wrong. It didn't hurt my reading experience, to the contrary the professional well paced voice in sync with highlighted text merrily took me through the book. I felt like a long time ago, my mother reading me a book while pointing at the words. It was fun.
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I actually think this is a wonderful use for children, and of course, for anyone visually impaired. I adored the books we made for Fergus the Ferry--I really did. I don't say that due to bias, I think that they are absolutely fabulous kids' books, and the read-along (iBooks and Nook only--Nook has a different implementation than SMIL) was a hoot.
Maybe, due to PoP's insight, I'll have to rethink this for adult books. I mean, grown-up books, not "adult" books. Hell, you guys know what I mean!
Hitch