I buy a lot of audio books. A good audiobook is a "performance" of the work in every sense of the word (I particularly recommend Barbara Rosenblatt's reading of Elizabeth Peters' "Amelia Peabody" series as a superb example of the "art" of audiobook reading). There is no way that a TTS system is even in the same ballpark.
As has been said, though, if the Kindle is "illegal" then so is every PC and Mac for the same reason - all can do TTS.
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