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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Amazon is well known for removing useful features. SD card? Can't have that any more. Sound/TTS, no way. Buy a tablet. You want the margins to actually come closer to the bezel? Nope, can't have that. Want the line height closer together? Forget it. You want software on the computer to be able to manage your collections? Not gonna happen.

So please stop complaining that features that are useful and that others want are not useful and that the Kindle is the best there is. The Kindle is not the best there is. It's actually lacking in many features.

Take a look at the T68 (the version sold on Amazon) as it comes stock. It has many more features then the Kindle. Kobo has many more features then the Kindle. Pocketbook has many more features then the Kindle.

I'm not saying the Kindle is lousy. I'm just saying that the Kindle no longer has a lot of features that it used to have and a lot of people want them. In fact, there are a number of things people want that Amazon has never given them and probably never will.

See above, under the vast majority of people in the world disagree with you, hence why the Kindle only sells even more than it did before.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

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.).

See above under it was removed because most people didn't want it, there will always be people who don't like something for some reason or another but that is hardly a vindication of the complaint.