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wyrdwyrd said: I've never been a reader of eBooks.  But now I think that's only because I didn't have an eBook reader-device upon which to read them.

eBooks are not perfect.  But in a situation like this, it's pretty cool.  I get to keep the actual book all nice and pristine and read the book on my cell phone as time permits.

Also, the reader app I'm using has text to speech.  The text to speech is crappy to be sure, but it's still pretty awesome to me.  I've listened to Scott read all the other GFL stories so it's not hard for me to mentally replace the lame emotionless voice with Scott's more impassioned, correctly pronounced version.

I'm going to be looking for a better ebook reader app in the future, and a more configurable text to speech thingie.  It probably doesn't exist yet, but I'm going to be persistent until someone else writes it or I manage to write my own.  Main missing feature: spell checkers always let you add words.  You should be able to add custom pronunciations to the Text to speech in a similar fashion.  It wouldn't even be that hard.  You just need a special screen where you can instruct the text to speech that every time it sees the string "<string>", it should pronounce it as if it were the string "<new-string>".   For exmple, text to speech, every time you see "Ionath", read it as if it were "I-onath".

After that, the next-next feature would be some sort of extension to the eBook file format to allow the inclusion of custom pronunciation guides specific to a given book.


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