[Vision2020] Need some advice

[Paul Rumelhart]

I think you can only turn text-to-speech on for the book, not for a given word.  You can put the cursor at the start of a word to get the dictionary entry for it, but I don't think you can get it to say just the word.  You can expand the abbreviated dictionary entry at the bottom of the screen to see the entire dictionary entry, but I don't see a link to say the word there, either.

I have a Kindle 2.

Paul

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

> From: Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Need some advice
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 12:04 PM
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> Hello there
> folks,
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> I've been thinking
> about getting our daughter, 
> Leslie, a Kindle so she will have opportunities to read
> books in which she's 
> interested.  Here's the problem:  Her
> interest level is "LIttle House, 
> etc." but her reading level is "middle first
> grade" or lower.  What I want 
> to get her is something that will let her read
> independently, but if she doesn't 
> know one single word she can point to it (or whatever)
> and it will audibly 
> give her the word.  The program, Leapfrog, does that
> and she uses it, but 
> the books are kindergarten, primary.  I want something
> more at her interest 
> level.  To those of you who use Kindle, will it do
> that?   I know 
> the new models have audio, but I don't know if they
> will 
> isolate one single word, and when I read the
> description of the 
> instrument, that isn't clear to me.  
>  
> Thanks for your
> advice.
>  
> Sue
> Hovey 
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