[Nfbmo] Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition to allow everyone accessto e-books
Gary Wunder
gwunder at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 4 15:07:27 UTC 2009
This is very very good sir. I wish I had written it.
----- Original Message -----
From: <danflasar at aol.com>
To: <gwunder at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Sign the petition to allow
everyone accessto e-books
> Gary,
> I've signed the Kindle petition and added the following text in the
> comments box:
>
> I fully understand why the Author's Guild wishes to protect their
> copyrighted works, but I don't agree with the contention that
> screenreading capacity will interfere with sales of audio book versions
> of their work.
> I've used screen readers to read computer screens, text documents and
> public domain works for 15 years. Text-to-speech technology allows me
> indispensable access to printed material.
> But when it comes to a choice between an author reading their work and
> text-to-speech, the author will *always* win. There is no way that
> artificial speech, as good as it is, can compete with David Sederis
> reading his own work, or Roy Blount or Andre Codrescu - or anyone else
> reading their own words.
> And trying to read poetry via screenreaders is just deadly. No matter
> how good text-to-speech gets, nothing will ever replace humans in
> articulating the nuances of a good book.
> Please reconsider your objection to the use of text-to-speech on the
> Kindle.
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> Dan Flasar
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