Is there a text to speech app that can read text books to me?

Is there a text to speech app that can read text books to me?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
You don't need an app for that text to speech is biult into OS X.
http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/28/how-to-make-your-mac-talk-text-to-speech/

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