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Originally Posted by Piers
I am thinking of buying a Kobo Fire 8, but living in the Netherlands means I do not have a an opportunity to try it out somewhere. So I hope you don't mind me asking maybe some very obvious questions.
My first question is about the voices in text to speech. Do I undertstand correctly that Amazon now uses Ivona voices? Which are installed. Can I buy new voices and install them myself (mostly interested in Amy).
My second question is about reading pdfs on this device. What is the average experience? Are there negative things I should take into account?
Thanks!!
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Kobo and Fire8 are not one and the same. The Fire 8 is sold by Amazon is a nice color tablet. I have owned one since December and it is a great tablet, PDF's look really good, I do not think you can change or buy new voices. I own almost every Kindle tablet and the 8 HD is my favorite size, I own a 32 GB model. The 7" seems to run out of memory even though you can add a memory card, and the 10 HD just seems to big.
I don't know Amazon's policy in the Netherlands but try it I think you will love it...here in the States you can return after 30 days if not satisfied.