#braille book

[53v3nfrn5]

Martin Kunz: ‘Pictures for the Blind’ (1902)

#martin kunz #pictures #images #tactile #braille #animals #aesthetic #1902 #1900s #art #book #bugs #bugcore #sciencecore #birds #blind

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

“Reading is for everyone.”

Here is one of the coolest things I've found stuck in a library book recently! It's a bookmark from the Library of Congress that's in print and also incorporates a message in braille. It's advertising the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Learn more at the NLS website:

ETA: Thanks for all the love for this post!!! Here's a reblogged version which includes some great comments and a very helpful ID!!!

#bookmarks #reading is for everyone #braille #Library of Congress #NLS #Blind and Print Disabled #talking books

[forestofsprites]

#I'm sorry these are so broad #I can't give nonfiction the love I'd like to #I'm running on 10 options and MANY genres #<3 #polls #PS this includes audiobooks & braille books & what have you #kitted out extensively

[bumblebeeappletree]

This is your reminder to go email your local library head/director to give them a list of Solarpunk books, and ask to see if they’re able to get them in large print and Braille. And! If you have an absolutely favorite book and your library doesn’t have it, either in the mass produced print, large print, or in Braille, you should email the library head/director to see if they will be able to get it in! Accessibility is important, and reading is fun! Share the joy!

#solarpunk #reading #accessibility #library #large print #braille #blind #low vision #books #listen I just think it’s important that the blind and low vision population have access to Solarpunk books #because tbh i don’t know if the Solarpunk books that are in circulation have Braille or large print editions #but with enough demand we will have that available #and also not everyone who is blind or low vision listen to audiobooks #they could just not like the voices #or they may feel like they like to go at their own pace by reading it #but we also must not forget people who are blind/low vision who are also deaf and/or hard of hearing #these things can stack you know #so why not make things as accessible as we can?

[runawaymarbles]

Fic Binding: leverage by @columbinepurples​ (Daredevil, Matt/Foggy, M, 1.7k.)

First attempt at a Braille book! More of the process is documented here. I transcribed it into Braille on PerkyDuck, and embossed it with an embosser I found on eBay.

#leverage #daredevil #mattfoggy #ficbinding #fanbinding #Braille #books #coptic stitch #op #handbinding

[midnightmah07]

Finished Damali's room yippeeeeee

The cleaned up rooms for the dorms can be found here btw!

#twisted wonderland #twst #oc x canon #twst oc #twisted wonderland oc #idk what else to tag #i mean damali isn't in the picture #but anyway #yeah!!! #tried to show her love for bugs and poison making by giving her a big display #+ a few medicinal herbs and stuff #also tea!! #there's also a wooden walking stick/cane bc you know... blind #also all her books are in braille!! she doesn't read them much tho #finds most of them tedious #however the ones talking about bugs and poisons/herbs are her favorites and she reads those happily #💙! damali

[undead-potatoes]

People who are snobbish about audiobooks are so weird. We've both experienced the same words, gone through the same journeys with the same characters, had the same opportunities to connect with a piece of art, but because someone used their ears instead of their eyes it's somehow all invalid? Truly bizarre.

#Sunny Life #and then ofc there's the baked in ableism like are you saying that a blind person has never read a book before? #or does it only count when they've read it in braille? #not to speak of ppl with learning disabilities or other issues that make it difficult for them to read books (like brainfog and fatigue) #anyways if you're weird and gatekeep-y about how people experience art I'm coming to your house and stealing your kneecaps

[nonspeakingkiku]

Kiku got most of the braille books Kiku requested!

ID: Two stacks of braille books sitting on a wooden floor. The book on the top of the left stack says Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert and has a small white sticker that says transcribed by Hazel Wetts. The book has large images of fruit on it. End ID

#kiku squeaks #braille #braille books

[vroomian]

does yrz's library stock braille books too?

Yeah! I don’t know why it wouldn’t tbh

#vrrm vrrm #braille books are still books so they go in the library #Hazbin au #you've got questions we've got answers

[secondbeatsongs]

@iamfuckingtrash replied to your post “Which one of these things do you think I'm lying...”:

Did you just, have books in braille? Without knowing braille?

​librarians are very wonderful people who don't ask questions, and who will let you check out whatever books you want so long as you bring them back later

#iamfuckingtrash #technically the librarian did ask me one question #''do you know those books are in braille?'' #me: yup! #librarian: okay! have a nice day! #personal #sbs polls

[euesworld]

"Damn, I love the way you taste.. between your legs with your flower on my face. Thighs blooming as I consume you and make your legs shake, in your room listening to tunes as I lie awake.. thinking of you and the things we do, I want to make you feel great."

Gotta love the way she talks dirty while I'm eating it - eUë

#between your pages #like a book #that i want to read #braille #so sweet #the way your body responds #to me #soft touches #tongue tied #rushing #in your mind #pink flowers #taste nice #i was high on you #tonight #lust #taste me #flowers #quotes #text #poem #poetry #poetic #poets on tumblr #poet #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled words #love quotes #love

[jamestheenderman]

James is a neat freak when it comes to libraries and books in general, like making sure there's not even a single spot of dust or sorting books out by order, topic, color, etc.

Or another one in case

James's skin/scales(?) is either semi transparent or semi iridescent.

✅ and ❎

#ask #answer #askethandothers #.txt #the first one is kinda true actually #okay he can't really organize books by colors cos... ykno. he's blind #he does organize them by topic tho #they adapted the shelves so there's Braille sculpted near every group #as for the scales- he doesn't have them! #..at least in this design lmao #he kind of did in the past????? kinda?? #then I decided his skin is rather smooth #it's like touching silk #headcanons

[ebookporn]

Braille Is Alive, Well, and Ever-Evolving

by Sophia Stewart

A few times a day, a strange, pulsating sound fills the Boston headquarters of the National Braille Press. Thun-thun. Thun-thun. This is what employees of the nonprofit braille publisher call the office’s “braille heartbeat,” generated by an assortment of printing presses—50-year-old Heidelbergs and modern big-roll embossers alike—pumping away in the basement, producing books and other reading materials for blind readers.

NBP has been at the forefront of braille publishing since 1927, when it was founded by the blind Italian immigrant Francis Ierardi—a classmate of Helen Keller’s at the Perkins School—as a weekly newspaper serving Boston’s blind community. Demand was so great that it went national after just three months. Since then the organization has expanded far beyond a single publication. Today, NBP produces and distributes braille books, reading materials, and technologies for the nation, with clients ranging from individual blind readers to the Library of Congress.

Bringing braille to young readers in particular is central to NBP’s mission. “Our goal is to support braille literacy,” said NBP president and CEO Brian MacDonald, and fostering that literacy depends on early intervention. As part of its ongoing efforts, in 1983, NBP launched one of its flagship programs, the Children’s Braille Book Club. The first-of-its-kind subscription service pioneered the “print/braille” book format by distributing mainstream children’s books with added braille. (Under the 1996 Chafee Amendment to the U.S. Copyright Law, nonprofits can reproduce copyrighted works in forms that make them accessible for people with disabilities that impact reading.)

READ MORE

#braille #visually impaired #literacy #book publising #national braille press #book publishers #book publishing #librarians

[innocentsardonicpotatoes]

Like a blind man who reads through braille,

He caressed every inch and curve he could with his hands and lips, learning more about her.

#words #spilled words #book quotes #spicy content #braille #touchstarved #spilled thoughts #poetic #??? i think

[garadinervi]

William Bell Wait, Key to the NY Point System of Tangible Writing and Printing [Literature, Instrumental and Vocal Music, and Mathematics, Designed for the Use of the Blind], 1909, Revised from Editions of 1872, 1882 and 1893, pp. 56-60 (pdf here) [Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA. The New York Institute For Special Education, Bronx, NY]

#graphic design #pedagogy #education #braille #new york point #blindness #low vision #vision impairment #book #william bell wait #perkins school for the blind #new york institute for special education #1870s #1880s #1890s #1900s

[runawaymarbles]

Braille book experiment no. 2: the problem with using, as one’s practice text, a work in which the author regularly shortens words like “with” and “the” to “wif” and “da” is that due to Braille’s contractions of common word and letter groupings, this actually makes the text longer.

but being able to fit 17 characters to a row with 19 rows a page that puts me at 329 characters per page, including spaces. If we guesstimate a 5k text being at about 30,000 letters including spaces, that would make 5k about a 90 page book— keeping in mind that pages cannot be double sided and are thicker than print pages because the paper is heavier and also because there are raised dots on one side.

If I cut a line I could add page numbers to the bottom, but that would put me down to 312 characters per page. Or I could manually add page numbers to the corner with a stylus. But then I’d have to buy a stylus 🤔

(Image description: two Braille pages containing most of the first paragraph of My Immortal)

#also I haven’t used a stylus in years and would have to learn everything backwards again #Braille typewriter only goes forward #braille #books #bookbinding #works in progress #op #my immortal