Amazon Kindle as Assistive Technology device:
Let's make one thing straight, Amazon Kindle is not Apple iPad, for one thing, the functionality of kindle is not on par with Apple iPad, it was designed for one purpose, and only one purpose , assisted reading. For another thing, the durability of Kindle may arguably be more frail than iPad. I broke my Kindle within a week and had to return it to Amazon for replacement. While one can left iPad on for weeks, one cannot do the same to kindle without its LED display caving in. However, consider its costs,what it was designed to do and what it does, I think it is a charming little assistive device. For $189.00 you get a free Wifi 3G and that alone to me, already justified the cost. 3G wifi normally costs $40 a month, so if your kindle lasts a year or two, it would be economically justifiable. Kindle comes with text to speech voice navigation, and also text to speech narration, although its choice of voice engine left something to be desired, nonetheless the functionality is there, a