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You are trodding on very subject ground with your comments.  While I can 
understand an appreciate them, personally, I am so used to synthesized 
speech of the Double/triple Talk variety, that I would view it as my 
preferred reading voice.
I also find reading with the pc so far more efficient and convenient, as 
compared to the nls talking or hard-copy braille book, that I have little 
interest in them unless no other means of getting the material were 
available.

What do I like about reading with the pc.  I can quickly clip material out 
for future reference, mark something, use search commands for specific 
words or phrases and have my result in less than a second, and this off 
the top of my head.

Getting Braille copies of books takes forever, even if something were 
in existence, and we have said nothing about production schedules.

Book reading is not much a part of my life these days, due to the 
competing info sources, but I don't relish the thought of having to wade 
through a NLS audio book or wait months for something in Braille from a 
regional center when, instead, it can be grabbed in minutes from Web 
Braille.
Web Braille, of course, can be read by programs such as K1000 which can 
easily backtranslate into text.

This isn't a right or wrong answer thing; but I am far beyond the point of 
looking at things esthetically.  My sighted wife loves her Kindel, and the 
only thing keeping her from buying more books on a regular basis is the 
price.
Otherwise, I suspect, she would give up the paper reading of books for the 
electronic given the convenience.  She wasn't sure she was going to like 
it so she experimented with the free samples Amazon offered
Where the NLS talking book has a unique advantage is for certain fiction 
where a given reader just happens to do a book or character the way you 
like it.
I recall, as an example, listening to a good number of the Lillian Jackson 
Braun "Cat Who" series done by Bob Askey that it just didn't sound right 
when someone else happened to do a book in the series.
I stopped with the NLS book and grabbed a Bookshare copy of the text in 
that instance.





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Jim Elliot


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