http://universallydesigned.net/standards/books-wont-talk-on-kindle/ Knowbility blogs about technology that everyone can use. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:49:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://universallydesigned.net/standards/books-wont-talk-on-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Desiree Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:22:38 +0000 http://universallydesigned.net/standards/books-wont-talk-on-kindle/#comment-987 Hi Sam: I read somewhere that their feeling is if you want the book spoken, you should have to buy the audio book. To me, this makes very little sense. I mean, I know technology has come a long way, but mechanical voices are not even close to listening to a human being performing a book. Trust me, if I could aford to buy all my books in audio format, I would, and then I wouldn't have to listen to a machine read to me. I am just wanting access to the book period, but I guess the publishers also feel that, because of organizations like bookshare and recording for the blind, I can have access and denying speech features on their ebooks will not prevent me from reading them. Hi Sam:
I read somewhere that their feeling is if you want the book spoken, you should have to buy the audio book. To me, this makes very little sense. I mean, I know technology has come a long way, but mechanical voices are not even close to listening to a human being performing a book. Trust me, if I could aford to buy all my books in audio format, I would, and then I wouldn’t have to listen to a machine read to me. I am just wanting access to the book period, but I guess the publishers also feel that, because of organizations like bookshare and recording for the blind, I can have access and denying speech features on their ebooks will not prevent me from reading them.

]]> http://universallydesigned.net/standards/books-wont-talk-on-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-981 Sam Bird Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:35:27 +0000 http://universallydesigned.net/standards/books-wont-talk-on-kindle/#comment-981 Odd. I wonder why Randomhouse is doing that. I don't understand their concerns about copyright infringement. Odd. I wonder why Randomhouse is doing that. I don’t understand their concerns about copyright infringement.

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