Help for auditory learners

[Ostrinski]

My learning style is so extremely auditory that simply reading mentally exhausts me. I mean I can partake in discussions on here without much trouble, but reading books and long essays is so laborious that I can't possibly enjoy it even if I like the writing style, agree with points, and so on. I began reading, and a few minutes later to my surprise I was still on the same page. It is very frustrating. So my questions are:

Does marxists.org have any sort of function that narrates any of the texts?
Is there any kind of program that I can download that will narrate a given text?
Is there a function in e-book readers that narrates texts?

Thanks.

[NewLeft]

I'm an auditory learner too and the Kindle has a text to speech option. There is VoiceOver for iphone..etc. If you're looking for a text-to-speech program then look here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesizers). I use IVONA which I find has a more natural sounding voice.

http://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/index.htm

I'm pretty sure I "read" Reform and Revolution on youtube, so check there too.

[dodger]

My learning style is so extremely auditory that simply reading mentally exhausts me. I mean I can partake in discussions on here without much trouble, but reading books and long essays is so laborious that I can't possibly enjoy it even if I like the writing style, agree with points, and so on. I began reading, and a few minutes later to my surprise I was still on the same page. It is very frustrating. So my questions are:

Does marxists.org have any sort of function that narrates any of the texts?
Is there any kind of program that I can download that will narrate a given text?
Is there a function in e-book readers that narrates texts?

Thanks.

Brospierre, might be a silly question, have you had your eyes checked lately? I had same problem many years ago....reading specs sorted it ! I was completely unaware of the problem......

[Ostrinski]

Brospierre, might be a silly question, have you had your eyes checked lately? I had same problem many years ago....reading specs sorted it ! I was completely unaware of the problem......Yes, my vision is almost perfect

[ellipsis]

They're are lots of speeches on Marxists.org eg malcolm x which I listen to a lot. I also listen to podcasts a lot at work which is a good way to learn science etc for me, radiolab and freakonomics are not revolutionary but very informative.

[Rooster]

There are some very good text to speech programs but you usually have to pay for them. I think that some PDF readers also have a read out feature and I think Foxit might be one of them. Actually, I'll make a PDF and see if it works. Yup, it works. You can just copy and paste the text into something like OpenOffice and export it as a PDF. It's not great though.

[ellipsis]

NPR and other news radio like democracy now is also helpful to keep up on happenings.

[Ostrinski]

Thanks for the tips everyone.

[ellipsis]

let us know if they prove helpful.