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Text to Speech to MP3 in OS X, Listen to my text books

I have recently fallen in love with the concept of audiobooks, i've "read" more books in the last 8 weeks than i have in the last 3 years.

I would like to merge this concept to the academic slice of my life. All of my text books came with digital equivalents, and I would like to turn these into mp3's that I can listen to on my iPod.

Does anyone have a good work flow or just a simple program that can accomplish this?

Thanks, Wanna Be GTD College Kid

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Automator?

Not sure if these are Leopard-only actions at any step, but...

1) Ask for Finder items 2) Extract PDF text 3) Text to Audio File 4) There is no step four.

HTH

 
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