This Issue Ranks Up There With the Silliest
This has to rank up there with the most ridiculous attempts to stifle the right of all to "Read" I have ever seen. Whether the Kindle, my iPod, my laptop or my Grandmother the ability to "read" text with a computerized or human voice to yourself/someone is a fundamental individual right. Buying an eBook (textual eBook that is) and having your device read it to you (notice the YOU part here - no party of many in sight) is easily done with almost any computer device. This is SO different from buying an audio book where the reader is Jeremy Irons or some other voice of note that anyone who tries to suggest otherwise needs help with reading and comprehension. I sense a "Reader Tax" proposal coming for all devices capable of this...
