Extract of an interesting article from The Memo site:
Canute is tackling the decline in Braille literacy – and everyone should care.
Being able to read is one of the most precious of skills: Books free the imagination and inspire creativity – they allow people to learn independently, and relax after a hard day.
But not everyone has that luxury.
This week is National Braille Week: a week dedicated to the raised dots that allow blind people to read letters, numbers, punctuation and words.
But Braille is on the decline.
In the ’60s up to 50% of blind school children in the US were able to read Braille, but this figure is now closer to 10%.
Today one company hopes to turn this around, with a device that’s fit for the digital age.
Get ready to meet Canute.
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Like a kindle for blind people
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Glad to hear about this, thanks, Chris.
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My pleasure Jemima 😃
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Reblogged this on newauthoronline and commented:
As someone who lost the majority of their vision at approximately 18-months-old (I am registered blind), I welcome this invention. My thanks to Chris the Story Reading Ape for drawing my attention to this interesting article.
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Many thanks for drawing attention to this excellent invention Chris. As someone who has been blind since approximately 18-months-old I welcome anything that enhances the ability of visually impaired people to read independently. I learned to read braille from about 6-years-old and love sitting with a braille book on my knee. Further enhancing the capacity of braille readers to access text in this medium, using an electronic device is to be welcomed as while the text to speech facility on the Kindle is great, its exciting to know there will be a braille alternative. Kevin
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My pleasure Kevin 👍
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Reblogged this on Wanda Luthman's Children's Books and commented:
This invention is truly carving a new path for our blind friends. I’m grateful to these caring people to create such a wonderful instrument and for making it affordable.
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Thanks for reblogging Wanda 👍😃
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This is awesome! I’m very excited about this for our blind friends. Thank you for caring to make this wonderful tool and making it affordable!
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Thanks to the creator, Ed Rogers, Wanda 😃
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This is just wonderful!
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Agreed Annette 👍😃❤️❤️❤️
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Thanks, Chris. I had wondered about Braille books. The article makes an excellent point about the difference between reading and being readt-to by text-to-speech. I know that Nick, having lost so much of his sight, really mourned his inability to read (he’d always been a bookworm) until the re-sizeable fonts on Kindle allowed him to do so. I hope this takes off. It would be a crying shame to prevent people reading for themselves just because text to speech is a cheaper option.
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I’m intending to have my Mum’s book available in Braille in the future Sue, once we’re sorted out 👍🐵
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I hope you’ll publish the how-to, Chris 🙂
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Indeed I will Sue – Meanwhile, I encourage everyone to at least make their ebooks available in text to speech (and audiobook if possible) 😃
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Audiobooks I will have to get sorted… when I get chance!
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