So, a few short days of this gift being given and it is returning home. Why? Because the text-to-speech feature is now a ‘maybe if the publisher wants it enabled’ which wouldn’t have been used unless we were driving and were hard up for entertainment. But it is the fact that it is a feature that was disabled after it was purchased, and as a message to the publishing community that you can’t disable a feature that offers standard functionality in most computer equipment for as long as I can remember. Even War Games had a synthesized voice asking to play a game. Those who can’t see the text easily, could have used the function, but now it is semi-disabled. And we don’t agree with it. So, it goes back.
We’ll consider the Sony, or other e-readers when they arrive this year. I didn’t sign up for a device that can have functionality disabled on a whim or when someone gets uppity about some function. I certainly hope the next car I purchase doesn’t have a sunroof that the manufacturer can disable through software updates.
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