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Vision Groups Want Colleges To Stop Buying Kindle
By Chris Bolt
Vision Groups Want Colleges To Stop Buying Kindleby Chris Bolt

November 12, 2009

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[1 min 32 sec]Add to PlaylistDownload text sizeAAANovember 12, 2009 from WAERAmazon's Kindle is taking some knocks from the National Federation for the Blind. The electronic reader can read books aloud, but the federation says that function is difficult to turn on when you can't see. Now, two universities say they won't buy more Kindles for their students unless Amazon comes up with a fix.

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