The follow-up to Amazon's amazingly 80s-styled ebook reader was announced today.

Besides the much-improved Apple-rific stylings, this feature is certainly brand new:

Read-to-Me: With the new Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you

I don't really go for audio books, but some may really enjoy it. That is unless the voice synthesizer sounds like "Emily" from the Garmin Nuvi.