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Old 09-28-2014, 05:03 PM   #116
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
When people poke their nose into this thread and start comparing the Kindle to their insignificant in context ereader, attempting to justify the claim that the Kindle should have audio, because, "well, my niche ereader has audio and OCR and a camera and TTS in 40 voices, and even a child's voice, and and and", then the ready availability of the device in the centre of [my] universe the parts of the world where Kindles are popular, (and tangentially, the parts where the majority of ereaders of any description are sold,) is suddenly very relevant all of a sudden.
Speaking of TTS, the real reason most people who want TTS on the Kindle is not because some other Reader has it like the T68, but because Amazon used to have TTS on the Kindle. The Touch was the last Kindle model to have TTS and for that matter, sound (MP3, audiobooks, etc.).
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