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A little while ago there was a controversy when the Kindle had the feature to read books out loud. I believe this feature has been removed.

Does any other eBook reader have this feature? I regularly drive for four hours in a day and would love to be able to turn any book into an audio book.

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The feature has not been removed from the Kindle. What's changed is that publishers are allowed to set a bit that disables the feature on a per-book basis, if they choose to.

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Interesting. Do you know approximately how many choose to disable? – user1413 Nov 22 at 17:56
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Software

The following two products claim the ability to read ebooks:

2nd Speech Center ($39.95)
TxReader Professional ($99.95)

See iPhone/iPod Touch: The Ultimate E-book Reader on how to use an iPhone/iPod as a reading device.

Hardware

See the Intel Reader, reviewed here, although very pricey at $1,500 (!).

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meet my favorite Russian eBook reader :)

Cool Reader 2 supports .txt, .doc, .html, .fb2 and .rtf

just press Enter to toggle TTS (Read Aloud) on/off or press F2 to export the book to MP3 and listen on your MP3 player or indeed the Kindle (tip: placing the MP3 in the Kindle's Audible folder - instead of the Music folder - will allow fast forward, pause, rewind, etc.)

Cool Reader 2 is freeware and portable, no installation required.

Note: Cool Reader 3 is available too, it is now open source and cross-platform, but does not support TTS and skinning.

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