Things Amazon Could Do To Improve the Kindle's Accessibility

I adore my Kindle 3.  For the first time in about 35 years I can read books that came out recently, pretty much impossible if one is reliant on recorded books "for the blind". 

I believe Amazon is desirous of making the Kindle as accessible a tool as possible.  They have come a long way.  I would like to offer some recommendations of what they can do to improve it further.

• While I am less into the Amazon Storefront on the Kindle able to be read aloud, it being so much easier to buy books on the web site and have them sent to my device, it would be great if some of the tools, like notes, for example,  were also able to use text-to-speech.
• Improve the text-to-speech application the device uses.  I don't so much mean the tone or inflection as get rid of some of the pronunciation quirks.  My Kindle always reads "lunged"  with a hard "g" and the word "mar" as "march".  Granted, som of the presumptions are downright entertaining, like "a fox in a chicken cooperative",  but a little of that goes a long way.
• Put together something to give to publishers and authors who are reluctant to allow text-to-speech on their books that explains that no one who does not have to would choose to listen to the digital reader rather than buy the audiobook, and that disabling text-to-speech prevents people like me from reading their books.  I would be happy to back them up on this.
• Go back through some of the existing content, out of print books for example, and get them onto the Kindle.

I know blind people yell at you all the time.  Not me.  Your wonderful reading device has made a huge improvement in my reading life, my life in general, and I thank you.

Nan Hawthorne