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Are Airport X-Ray Machines Killing Kindles?
By Paul Eng on November 21, 2011 3:30 PM   27 Comments
The Amazon Kindle and other similar e-readers can be quite convenient for frequent air travelers who want to fly without packing heavy or bulky books. But some European jet-setters are reporting that run-ins with airport X-ray machines are killing their Kindles. More »

Amazon Begins Selling Kindle Books With Text To Speech Disabled
By Chris Walters on May 13, 2009 10:51 PM   73 Comments

—>As promised, Amazon has begun to implement the text to speech (TTS) flag that lets authors and their publishers turn off the "read it to me" feature of books on the Kindle. MobileRead members note that Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Stephen King's The Stand both have TTS disabled, and it seems to be on an author-by-author basis instead of by publisher or imprint.  More »

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