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Originally Posted by Mobert
As a mother of a son who had a reading disablity, one of the things the special schools recommended was listening to a book in audio while following with your eyes written text. I used to have to find books in audio cassettes that went along with written text for my son to keep up in class. Finding the audio version of many books was hard to come by. The Kindle 2 has the ability to read the written text and also to turn the pages along with it. So I say it is a great learning tool and much cheaper than the audio special equipment I had bought years ago even if I had to add the cost of insurance as I think the Kindle is easily dropped and broken.
Out of US customers are able to add content to their Kindle2 through their computer as wispernet does not work out of the country.
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I would suggest to you something completely different. I does not involve readers because they are not, for now, able to support what I'm about to propose. It is a bit of software made by Microsoft for use with Windows. Microsoft Reader. You can find many, many books in its native .lit format, and they have an extension for Word that allows you to create your own .lit content.
When you open a book in Microsoft reader you can have it read by the computer and as it does so, the text is highlighted simultaneously. If you want portability, the newer netbooks will cater to that need much better than a reader.
One caveat. I don't know if it's still available. I use an old version on an old computer.