It so happened that a few days ago he needed to do some reading but was awfully tired, so I let him borrow my Kindle to try the text-to-speech (TTS) option. We are reading a chapter a week of The Story
That night, he downloaded the Kindle app, registered it to my account and was quickly able to download a few of the hundreds of books I have purchased over the past couple of years. He was somewhat disappointed to learn that the Kindle app doesn't offer TTS. I agree, that's a shame as it's a great bonus to have them read aloud when your unable to sit and read - like when you're driving, cooking dinner or weeding in the garden and the book is just too good to put down!
That said, I think he will still use it a little on his iPod Touch. He liked the flippy page turns (though with a lot of reading I think that would get old quick), and I admit that scrolling books was very nice. I'd forgotten what it's like to choose a book by it's cover (haha) as now I mostly pick them by description and reviews.
The text has a sepia option, which is quite nice as reading on a backlit screen gets painful on the eyes after long periods. But then, I think these apps aren't so much to use instead of a Kindle but as a supplement - quick access to your books when you don't have Kindle available. I think, for now, Hubs will stick to paper books for most things but use the Kindle app as a quick reference to certain books.
Over the past 2 years, I've grabbed a lot of free books that have been on promotion at some time or other - whether they were of interest to me or not. I knew there might be a time when someone else in the family might share an account with me, so I am excited to see how much more use my eLibrary might get!
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