Anonymous, Texas

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In the last years of my mother's life, she was unable to read due to complications from diabetes. This was the woman who read to me every night when I was little, and taught me to love books and read by the time I was three. She would often tell me how much she missed being able to read the new books out there, and that she hated not being able to see the print. She often couldn't sleep at night due to pain, so she would sit and watch the wall rather than waking my father up to read to her. The Kindle 2 would have been a gift beyond words. And it seems that the Authors Guild misses the point––she could have bought the book and had it read to her with a bit more work than it would take for the Kindle 2 to read it instead.