Title: Not a good device for consumers.
Product review: The Kindle 2 originally shipped with the ability to turn your purchased books into a listenable form via text-to-speech. This is akin to having a family member or friend reading aloud to you.The Authors Guild felt that this threatened the sales of audiobooks and pressured Amazon into removing the feature. Amazon capitulated and crippled the Kindle by allowing authors to disable text-to-speech.The willingness of Amazon to appease the Authors Guild at the detriment of their customers makes this a risky purchase.I advise that until this product is no longer defective by Amazon's own design, you do not purchase it.
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