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Originally Posted by scottjl
I thought I remember Apple touting this as a feature of iBooks, but I can't seem to get it to read any text aloud, even with VoiceOver enabled. None of the other reader software has such a feature to my knowledge either.
I guess the alternative is to listen to audio books through the iPod application.
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Amazon added a read aloud function to the Kindles but then the publishers got all controllie (sort of like Steve Jobs) and forced Amazon to make it usable only at the publishers' discretion. That pretty much killed the feature and was one of the reasons I abandoned the Kindle. It seems kind of strange that these days you can by a Blu-Ray movie that comes with a second DVD for non-Blu-Ray DVD players and a third DVD for your PC or Mac. The movie industry seems to be loosening up and are starting to be more accomodating. Now if the book publishing industry would only stop acting like Steve Jobs and start acting more like the movie industry we might see a day when you could by a book in any electronic format and have the legal right to read and/or hear it on any reader in any format. That is, eBooks would be available in multi-formats for one low price.