One thing I’ve found out recently is that Kindle actually does have the ability to read books to you. While looking for books for my next year of college my mom and I were trying to figure out the best way for me to maximize my efficiency when it came to reading books. As a combined English and Creative Writing major writing and reading are a big part of the deal. Of course with a lot of reading there raises a dilemma, reading books takes way too long and sometimes I have no idea even what I’m reading. Listening to books is a lot of fun, but sometimes it’s hard to get direct quotes for essays. There were a few ways we tried to get by this, and they were met with moderate degrees of success. So we thought about a kindle because you can see the text as you’re reading it. The thing is we didn’t know if they had an audio function. So a bit of searching around revealed that in most cases the answer would be “no”, but some more searching came up with a bundle specially made for visually impaired and blind people that allows you to listen to the books. Which is great! So now I can listen and look at my book at the same time! Yay!