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Old 09-02-2012, 02:57 PM   #44
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by BWinmill View Post
"Bull" depends upon the context.

A number of people on these forums have mentioned using ereaders because of visual impairments, simply because they can enlarge the font size and other visual features of the page. (Remember, visual impairments doesn't mean zero vision.) It is also possible to enable text-to-speech on many readers, and for many books. So yes, there is a demand.
On a Kindle Touch, while you can use TTS with eBooks that do not disable TTS, you don't have TTS for the user interface. So for a blind person, getting to the book you actually want or trying to find out what is on the device isn't going to happen because the UI needs TTS.
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