The Kindle 2 was introduced a few months back and with it came a new text-to-speech feature, not new in general, but new to the Kindle. Sadly, with that feature, the Author’s Guild quickly raised some concern, even going as far as saying they wanted it removed. Based on those complaints, Amazon made some changes more »

Yesterday, Amazon introduced its new Kindle to the world. The biggest new feature is text-to-speech so you can your ebook read to you. That’s a pretty cool trick. How does it sound? Why not hear for yourself? This video also shows how the Kindle 2 flips the pages as the text is read to you so you can easily switch back to regular reading. It’s too bad that’s the only significant new feature. Find out more about the Kindle 2 here.