On Feb 17, 9:14*pm, Clive Page wrote:

In message 01cbce1e$13a7dce0$LocalHost@default,
Michael R N Dolbear writes

The Kindle ebook reader comes with a free 3G data link (GPRS or EDGE if
no 3G) mainly intended for downloading books but which including a
simple internet browser. And I have just acquired one (£152).

A user could check Live Departure Boards on the way to the station
without presenting, as a smart phone would, the temptation to use voice
and thus annoy fellow travellers.

Ah, but you *can* annoy fellow travellers by using the Kindle's
text-to-speech option, which is surprisingly good. *For those that want
to annoy, of course (and so many seem to want to do that). *It doesn't
work on web pages, as far as I can see.

And I can annoy annoying Kindle users by threatening to lamp them! I
must admit I hadn't realised it could talk - of course it seems
entirely obvious now that you've said it.

It's an opinion I doubt many on here will share, but I think it's
rather a shame there's now a web browser present on the new Kindle - I
really liked the idea of a pure single purpose book-like reading
device, unencumbered with the infinite distractions of the web - the
joy of immersive, long-form, non-hyperlinked reading.