Use your Kindle's Text to Audio Feature to Listen to Documents on the Road

One of the greatest, and seldom used, features of the Kindle is its ability to convert text to audio using the Text-to-Speech feature. This feature allows you to listen to the text of supported file formats (this feature can be toggled on and off by pressing the shift + sym keys). This only works on certain books published in the Kindle store, but it can also be used on files that you send to your Kindle email account.

This is how it works. When you setup a Kindle account, you get a special Kindle email account (usually something like username@kindle.com). Any documents that you send to this email account with the subject "Convert" will be converted to the native Kindle format. As long as it is a file that Kindle can recognize, you will then be able to listen to the text using a Kindle device.

It's great to use this feature if you want to multitask. On your next commute, you can take advantage of this feature by listening to any documents that you may need to catch up on.