The Copyright Office has recently published
various exceptions to the stringent Digital Millennium Copyright Act, of which especially exception #4 seems of relevance to us:
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4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
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I am not a lawyer, but the way I read this is that you may now be allowed to circumvent the access controls on e-books that don't have a "real-aloud" function or that don't work on your particular e-reader device. Any comments?
Thanks to
Moonraker for the news!