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You could also listen to ebooks via a text-to-speech app. While the inflection isn't lively, you get the advantages of being able to listen to almost any book and speeding it up so it doesn't take much more time than actual reading. I've found my brain is learning to process speech faster and faster as time goes by. Of course you can speed up a normal audiobook too, but inflection and varying voices will make it more difficult.
ETA: Repligo Reader lets you tts pdf files on Android. Universal Book Reader lets you tts other formats. Google Play Books allows tts for their ebooks.
Thanks, I needed that. If you get e-books on Kindle, and you didn't know how to text-to-speech them, here's the For Dummies. It works for "the second-generation Kindle and the Kindle DX." Luckily I have one of those. This website says it also works with Kindle Keyboard or Kindle Touch, but not Paperwhite.
Repligo Reader lets you tts pdf files on Android. Universal Book Reader lets you tts other formats. Google Play Books allows tts for their ebooks.
Seconded. On Android I'm using FBReader with an Ivona voice (free, with the drawback that I have to re-download Ivona every couple of months). It works really well for non-fiction, even the Sequences with all its long made-up words.
It doesn't work so well with fantasy/sci-fi though. Made-up words without an English root trip it up.