Invasion Of The Book Snatchers - Text To Speech Doesn't Replace Audio Books.

It's all about fear and greed that the Amazon Kindle 2 Text to Speech has now become an optional feature on the Kindle 2. But has anyone really sat down and compared the two. It's really a no brainer. Text to speech, lacks emotion and story telling that a normal audio book provides. You lose the human quality of a story when you translate straight text to voice, AND .... I..... REPEAT..... you lose the emotion that is added when someone is reading it. The text to speech feature on the Kindle 2 was a fantastic accessibility option, but it was never going to replace a well crafted audio book.

This should never have happened, does the MPAA or RIAA have the right to stop a PMP from being created because it enable users to load pirated music or movies to it. The Authors Guild, has no legal leg to stand on, but Amazon has caved to issue. [CNET]