Here’s my review of A Start in Life, 1981, by Anita Brookner, a wonderfully entertaining and thoughtful novel that surprised and delighted me! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c3f94b8f-fc4e-40e5-8627-8ec73594cf91
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Here are a few thoughts on Stamboul Train, 1932, by Graham Greene, an early novel set on the Orient Express #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph #Braille #reading @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/85c568b6-642e-4087-bd2e-9c9eb71579ed
Here’s my review of The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1953, a wonderful novel about class, memory and the loss of youthful innocence, with a dash of magic! #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0160c5fb-2919-4971-ab84-7f037475dfbd
I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire. When Jane Gardam died earlier this year I thought I really need to read her and this was the only book by her available in hardcopy Braille in the RNIB Library… #bookstodon #BookReview #Braille #reading #Storygraph
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de
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Eleanor Pairman, la matemática que usó su máquina de coser para enseñar geometría a personas ciegas.
Marta Macho Stadler via @mujerconciencia
Más información sobre Eleanor Pairman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Pairman
Yay! I read the Cat in the Hat in Braille today and didn’t mix words up! I’m getting there! What’s next? Would you suggest? I can still read raised print a billion times faster but I’m getting there via Braille! I can read an entire short story, at least 2000 words, in under an hour with raised print, and I’m curious when I will be able to do the same in Braille. #Braille
Here are a few thoughts on Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934, a reread for me, about the excesses of a wealthy American set living on the French Riviera, alcoholism and the ways mental illness was treated at the time #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/214d6cce-ed09-4e6c-ad04-3b6efbb7db3b
Here are a few thoughts on The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 1913, a truly wonderful novel with a deliciously awful main character! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f9c5a8d4-07a6-4997-88f8-11a999c5273f
I was in the need of a life affirming read for January and this book did the trick! Here are a few thoughts on What you are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, tr. Alison Watts #bookstodon #Braille #reading #BookReview @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f22afac2-2b56-4add-98a6-e9ee17f5bfce
French educator Louis Braille was born #OTD in 1809. He was the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people.
At just 15 years old, Braille began refining Barbier's system, developing a code based on a six-dot cell structure that allowed for efficient representation of letters, numbers, and even musical notation.
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Here are a few thoughts on Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, 1977, a poignant novel centred around 4 London office workers in their 60s who are all facing decisions about their future #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/323185e6-f58e-4f29-937b-febe961b1c2e
In February I enjoyed Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, 1923, which brightened those dull and damp days! Here are a few thoughts on this lesser known but very entertaining early Christie #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1c75d97d-2f23-40e8-a46d-e90ee5f78fbc?redirect=true
Ok so in the last two weeks I have read 275 pages of #Braille, totalling 19 chapters. I finished reading The Claw of the Conciliator(The Book of the New Sun 2) by Gene Wolf, and started The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun 3). I am sure some of you have seen my rather sparse posts logging my progress through this series, but this is more just patting myself on the back for keeping up reading consistently for almost 3 months now.
Here are a few thoughts on Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, 1949, a delight from start to finish! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e5d40053-8004-4db3-996b-e0883036b07c
Ok read a chapter today in #Braille, I started The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun 1) by Gene Wolf, and very quickly it was clear that this was the correct choice, I do not think it would be easy to follow in audio or TTS. So far it is exceptional.
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Here are a few thoughts on Still Life by Sarah Winman, 2021, a very enjoyable read with excellent image descriptions of photos woven into the story! #bookstodon #blind #braille #BookReview #reading #Storygraph @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c2535741-daba-472e-8bda-1f196a354ce6
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RE: https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic/116575911177078798
Ok, I have now started The Claw of the Conciliator (THE Book of the New Sun 2) by Gene Wolf in #Braille, and have finished the first chapter.
@main @mastoblind @bookstodon
These are the elevator buttons where I work.
Both have blind-accessible Braille text.
The down-arrow text means "down".
The up arrow text is also four characters, so, what could it mean?
Uppp?
High?
NO!
It means: Someone just took the down button, turned it 180 degrees, and slapped it on. 😅
So, at least from my amateurish knowledge...it means nothing.
Sure, you can abstract that the "not down" button means up. And I also think the arrows themselves can easily be felt but...that's damn stupid?
That...that's not the way stuff is handled, right? You can't just turn Braille upside down?!
I really wonder if I should...report this somewhere, but I have no clue if we have any accessibility responsible person. 😅
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Here are a few thoughts on The Last September by Elisabeth Bowen, 1929, my first by this author, it’s full of rich descriptions and a great portrait of a teenage girl #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9e9ed1a7-3a48-4140-9f2d-c74752b27d69
Contemplating transitioning off Linux to #FreeBSD or #NetBSD but worried about #accessibility. Does anyone have experience of using #braille displays with the BSDs?
I think BRLTTY claims to run on those platforms, but I have found FreeBSD documentation disclaiming support for braille devices, but perhaps this is outdated.
Someone mailed me some raised print books and, while I am an adult Braille learner/beginning reader, I can read raised print a billion times faster than Braille. This is fantastic! I tried learning contracted Braille, what we used to call Grade 2, but I am at the point where I will remain, I believe. I'm comfortable with grade 1. Uncontracted Braille. I still say, if you can learn Braille as a child, do so. If you have a blind child, put them in Braille classes. They will thank you later even if they protest now.
I get why Braille is prefered. Vastly easier to produce, especially digitally, but I wish places such as the NFB understood that I learned to read in another way, and Braille might not be viable, frankly.
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@dhamlinmusic/117015631004672742
I have now begun The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun 4) by Gene Wolf in #Braille, which is the final novel in this tetralogy.
@main @mastoblind @bookstodon
Reposting this since the groups went down, some Of this is available in #Braille, or in audio, on #BookShare and/ #NLSBard
https://www.goodreads.com/dhamlinmusic
@bookstodon @main @mastoblind #Blind #Reading #VisuallyImpaired
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Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems
What came before braille? Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the 19th century. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets
https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/printing-and-publishing/reading-by-touch/
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #BookHistory #blind #19thcentury #braille #printhistory #printing #bookmaking