Thread: Amazon Echo now reads Kindle books aloud
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Old 01-10-2016, 01:48 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Conan46 View Post
Ouch! That worries me and cools my enthusiasm. The Echo needs a serious upgrade if Amazon hopes to make it everything they seem to be aiming for. Maybe we will see a new version by the end of this year. I'm guessing lots of glitches reading long strings of text with 256 mb ram and single core
Gotta say $179 is too much for that hardware. I have nice bluetooth speakers I paid $20 for, and the bottom rung Amazon tablet has better specs at $49
I paid $99 for mine. I use it for streaming music (Prime, Pandora, FM radio, etc) and playing Audible books. For that, it was money well spent and I'm very pleased with the playback and sound quality.

What I love most about it is that it sits there ready to play whatever I want whenever I want. I don't have to fool around setting up another device.
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