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Turning a hard copy book to text then to .mp3 audio?

Okay, so I want to turn a hard copy book, well a couple of books into text then turn that into a .mp3 or something that I can burn to a disc and listen to it in the car.
Basically, it’s for my personal use, but I want to know what are the risks? Like will I be violating any copy writes or anything else that’s against the law? I know that with software you’re allowed to make one (1) copy for yourself as a backup, but can I do that with a book? I need to know ASAP, and I need to know what I have to use, but please don’t suggest anything expensive, also if there are services that would turn a hard copy book into an audio CD I would really like to know about that too if it’s not an expensive option, or does something like that even exist?
Thanks for all relevant answers in advance! I’ll check back to give somebody ‘Best Answer’
Any option of any cost is acceptable too, I also recently found A LOT of books open on public domain, for free.

Obviously, if you already have a copy of the book in a text format, that is going to save you a lot of typing.

Many books can already be found online, in a text format. (For example, I bet I could find “Tom Sawyer” online.)

If the book you want isn’t already in a text format, you must first take the time to type it. Save it as a text file.

Then you could use one of the many free “text to speech” programs that are available. They are getting better all the time. (Five or six years ago they were still pretty bad.)

Once you have an audio file of your text, if it’s not already in the mp3 format, you would again have to use a program to convert it to MP3. (There are many free conversion programs out there.)

Obviously, if your “text to speech” program can save it directly to an MP3 file, you just saved yourself a step.

If you do this just for personal use, to use and listen to in your car, (meaning, you won’t sell this) I don’t think you will have any legal problems.

Are there services that do this? Probably. A Google search for “text to mp3″ or book to mp3 or something similar should turn up something.

Good luck and have fun.

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