Hi Dark: My point exactly. Comparing braille to print is clearly unequal as what can be a pocket sized handbook for the sighted person takes several huge volumes in braille for a blind person. What I want as an end user is the same portability, same space requirements, and same ability to look things up as a sighted user when reading some documentation. Braille does not allow me to do that because it usually winds up being impractical for any of those requirements.
I know one thing that use to bug the crap out of me when I was younger is I would take a braille textbook home, and I'd get 90% through a reading assignment only for the volume to run out, and I'd need the next volume. Well, if the next volume is at school I end up having to not complete the assignment on account the blasted book was incomplete. The only way to prevent that from happening was to go ahead and take the next volume home with me just in case. Never mind the fact braille books are heavy to begin with, but having to carry extra volumes along to class or home was to my way of thinking ridiculous. Of course, one reason braille never caught on with me is for the first few years I was fully sighted. After having learned to learn print, having had the portability that goes along with print reading materials, braille seemed like a pretty poor second. Oh, it worked, but I personally would rather some reading system that is on par with print. At this point do to technology using some portable device like an iPhone or Android phone and a electronic document is really as close as I can get. In ways, it is better than print because we are not dealing with one document but many documents, music, and a bunch of other stuff that comes with a tablet or smartphone. Cheers! On 12/12/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > I think the best example of braille size was my schools copy of the pocket > dictionary in braille. > > Bare in mind the phrase "pocket dictionary" a book which all the other kids > > doing english were lent a copy of and which was, ---- as the name implies > pocket sized. > > The braille version was 18 volumes, each of which was slightly larger in > size than an A 4 sheet of print paper, with ahrd bindings and a good three > or four inches thick! (they were around 80 braille pages each). > > I think the only way that could be a pocket dictionary is for the Big > friendly giant! :D. > > Beware the Grue! > > dArk. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
