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Ebook Reader Text To Speech

ebook reader - advice me?

So, from what I've heard, there are many that love the Kindle and the Sony Reader, and there are also many many people who've advised me to stay away from it, so here I am asking for advice.

Basically, the ebooks I intend to read are ALL in PDF format and don't have that big of text.
I'm looking for an ebook reader that a touch screen that is 10 inches or more, has battery life of 2 weeks or more, text to speech is preferred as well as color, if available.

In the future, the only things I can imagine reading will be in .txt or .pdf format, and as I plan to reader quite often, you can imagine how frustrating it would be to read off a monitor for hours.

Only things I've discovered on google are the Kindle DX, that fits most of the qualifications, but maybe someone can reassure me, who uses a Kindle DX that it's quite good, or can redirect me to a better model.

Thank you in advance; easy 10 point answer

Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright.)
This is why they legally purchased copies are almost never available in PDF format.
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If you value the work enough to read it, pay for it.
SUPPORT A WRITE! BUY A BOOK!

Kindle 2 Text-to-speech Demonstration

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Cuddling up with the Nook

In basic substantive ways the Nook operates like other e-readers already on the market, such as the Kindle, its successor, the Kindle 2, and Kindle DX; and Sony’s Touch Edition, Daily Edition, and Pocket Edition Readers. They all use the grayscale E Ink display and have similar fundamental capabilities, although each does have its own particular bells and whistles. What sets the Nook apart is the first-on-the-market full-color e-reader touch screen, which eliminates the need for a keyboard and comprises one-third of its unique front side, which also includes a display screen surrounded by a frame with a user-friendly backward and forward button on each side. The Nook runs Google’s Android OS; and it is the first e-reader to offer an electronic loan option called LendMe, which allows one Nook user to borrow parts of another user’s content for up to two weeks.

Early reviewers of the Nook reported being disappointed in the device’s sluggishness and lack of an intuitive user interface, but they expect any kinks in the software and/or hardware to eventually be worked out, making the Nook a gadget lover’s favorite toy.

Nook sales will receive a powerful boost from the e-reader's availability to customers visiting any of the almost-800 bricks-and-mortar Barnes & Noble bookstores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, the new device allows users to download the half-million titles in the Google Books library. This is typical for advanced ebook readers and according to the article "Is the Future of Books in Mobile EBook Reading", apart from the range of books offered by Amazon for its Kindle, the Sony Reader also allows you access to a large library of books in the public domain that are therefore free to download (Digital Book Readers). The Nook sells for $259.

The Reader: point, shoot, and listen

The e-reader developed by Intel is in a class by itself. Simply called the “Reader,†the handheld device is the result of the collaboration of a long-time dyslexic - and frustrated - Intel employee, Intel’s Health division, and health care industry experts. Like its name, the Reader’s concept is also simple: It photographs labels, recipes, printed instructions, signs, flip chart pages, menus, memos, receipts and other smaller print sources, converts the printed text to digital text, then instantly converts the digital text to speech playback for reading-disabled or blind users and also to an over-sized digital display for low-vision users. The user can wear a headset in public places to avoid feeling conspicuous.

The Reader, in turn, has spawned Intel’s Portable Capture Station to enable Reader users to store larger amounts of texts such as chapters from a book or entire books, newspapers, periodicals and lengthy documents. The Portable Capture Station fits into what resembles a small suitcase, and can be set up on a counter or table, and, with the Reader locked into place, hold newspaper and magazine pages and other large documents which the Reader’s camera can then photograph.

Although the Reader’s price tag of about $1,500 is prohibitive to most individuals, the federal government makes funds available to the states so they can offer low-cost loans to those with disabilities for the purchase of assistive technologies. In addition, the No Child Left Behind Act provides grants and loans to schools so they can purchase assistive technologies for their students who require them for scholastic achievement. Intel works with several associations including the Council for Exceptional Children, the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the National Federation of the Blind to make the Reader available where it is needed, and the Reader has been endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association as an important teaching tool.

The Reader is available through a limited number of retailers, which are listed on Intel’s corporate website and include CTL, Don Johnston Incorporated, GTSI, Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare.

About the Author:

Marco Gustafsson is author of articles on eBook Readers, e-inc technology and electronic books. Discover new dimension of reading here on Digital Book Readers

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - Two Impressive Additions to the 2010 e-Reader Lineup: Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Intel’s Reader

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Categories: Electronic Book Readers

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3 Responses

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   Leo:

   First of all check in your sound recording application if you can find any option to select between your recording source (like microphone, line-in etc…), most probably the default source would be the microphone input.
   If you can't configure/change this in your program, try this: If you are using Windows, go to system tray and open volume control -> go to Options -> recording, select here your new recording source, probably something called like "wave-table", "sound mix", or even "what you hear" (as it is named on my case).. .try them until you get it right .
   good luck!
   

   10.10.2011 10:03

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   jonjuliusweb:

   Lol retard.

   11.11.2011 18:20

3. 

   dvamateur:

   Nice! It's good to see that the Atari 16-bit guys realized that the 8-bit Commodore product was a brilliant machine… I'm sure there's a Jack Tramiel joke in there somewhere…

   30.01.2012 15:03