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Old 07-09-2009, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Kitty View Post
They do make books on tape, Erin, for those of us who have a hard time reading. They're actually quite relaxing.
I've got the entire Harry Potter series on dvd, and I've been buying Stargate audio plays on cd (cant exactly call them books...they're more like episodes...run about an hour long mostly) I got a new one of those on monday that I havent listened to yet, and another one should be here any day for me to listen to. (with two of my favorite actors from Stargate in it. I'm so excited about that one!)

I have a computer program that I bought in late 2006 that I use to read fan fiction that I find on the internet. I use that at night sometimes when I go to bed. I usually fall asleep about 10 minutes into listening to the computer reading to me. The voices that program use are better than Microsoft Sam (the voice that does the narration on Windows computers)

I also have my iMac computer that uses the voice Alex (an Apple voice) that sounds pretty good.

I wish I had a Kindle2 (I have the Kindle1) The K2 has a text-to-speech function on it. I dont know if my Stargate novels would have the TTS enabled on them tho. So I'm not sure I'd be able to have those books read to me thru a Kindle or not. Some publishers had a hissy fit about the TTS and made Amazon disable it for some things. Jerks!

My dad has a K2, so I could borrow his to listen to some Tarzan novels, and John Carter of Mars (both my dad and I are Edgar Rice Burroughs fans)

I just cant wait for this stupid double vision to go away. I hate it. I think I hate it more than I did the giant blind spot that I had when I had optic neuritis 3yrs ago. I'd rather be in pain than have double vision.

What irritates me is that I just bought a membership to the exercise place down the street, and now my eye is all fubar and I just dont want to go exercise with a patch over my eye. It never fails, everytime I want to do something to improve myself, the MS Trolls get jealous and decide they want some attention and make life miserable for me for awhile.
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