Is there an app that reads text on your iBooks on your iPhone?

shroudlupe wrote:
I was thinking of buying Kindle mainly because of the Read-to-Me function.

Note that the read-to-me function on the Kindle works only on selected books; the author/publisher has the right to say NO. And many have (I have a Kindle 2 and many books for it). When you look at a book in deciding whether to buy or not, you are told Yes or No, so no surprises.

There is an iPhone/iPad Text-to-Speech app. I don't know whether it works with books (iBook or Kindle) or not.

Phil

It doesn't work that way. The publisher of the book decides whether a book is text to speech.

You do know that you can download audiobooks to the iPhones?

iBooks has been updated a while ago to support media (other than just the written word). It is up to the creators of the book to add this.

shroudlupe wrote:
I was thinking of buying Kindle mainly because of the Read-to-Me function.

See David Pogue's column for last week; specifically, the 3rd feature.

Just read that, too: Looks like that app is iBooks!

Phil

Whoa...very nice...

dang, that is a nice feature.
i never would've known. thanks for the link.

The only other option is the VoiceOver Accessibility option. It may not be designed for iBooks though.
settings>general>Accessibility>VoiceOver ON

hi, Joe...
that's what Lawrence Finch was talking about in his post above.
also imho, it's best when VoiceOver is turned Off, but then assigned to 'Triple-click Home' button. personally, i have 'Triple-click Home' set to 'Ask'.
and the auto-turn page doesn't seem to work for books in landscape, or for PDF's in either orientation, for that matter.

@shroudlupe,
yeah it does sound weird, but they're really not audio books. just the computer, with human voice, reading it back to you.

This is not exactly what you're asking but you can get public domain audiobooks from Librivox.com.