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I'd not listen to an entire book on any TTS. They don't come near human narration. If you are blind or partially sighted they are just about OK for a short story.
Blind & partially sighted have had human narrated audio books since the 19th C. Cassettes are better that CDs as quality is good enough and they remember position.
The rise in audio-books for everyone as digital files is a boon to blind & partially sighted, and some are on our local library website (which is free).
It was a shame that Audible was bought by Amazon and Amazon have hurt the competitors with their aggressive monopolistic marketing. Audible is too expensive and subscriptions are almost a rip-off for most people. So totally unacceptable that Audible is doing computer generated audiobooks. That's only marginally better than say Pocketbook on Android TTS.
I agree that current TTS on a phone is a good bit better than Kindle DXG, kindle gen3 & PW3, but still nowhere near a human reader, especially if content is not standard ordinary USA English. The Kindles mentioned are poor and hardly any improvement on DOS in mid to late 1980s or Windows mid 1990s to today. Win10 is actually more awkward for a blind person than XP and offline speech not enough better. No good to listen to a novel for 4 hours.
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