I’m not going to buy the Kindle 2

Yes, I’m not going to buy it. Why? Because Amazon is making it ‘optional’ for authors to disable Text-To-Speech functionality on their books.

Yes, authors, shoot yourself in the head… I’d rather buy bootleg or secondhand copies of books off the streets. Much cheaper… And I’ll ask my parrot to do the Text-To-Speech part…

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