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Old 10-11-2016, 06:48 AM   #90
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Yep, I agree with that. I could get upset about the flaws and idiosyncrasies of my Fire HD 6, but then I only paid $43 for it and that included taxes and shipping. We get what we pay for. It is an okay device, barely, and it works for what I use and bought it for, but it isn't a workhorse by any stretch of the imagination. At that price I never expected much out of it, so I got about what I assumed I would.
I paid a lot more than that for my HD6 (pre-order at launch) and I don't regret it. I love the size, and it's much more valuable to me, now that I've discovered I can tolerate text to speech, and only the Fire tablets have the full variety of voices for Kindle books. I'm listening to one now...just released, and I don't want to wait for the audio to come out next month.

Sort of on-topic, as the same comments about TTS can be applied to the new Fire HD8. I haven't tried TTS on my original HD8 yet, as of course, the 6" is more portable.
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