READING FOR THE BLIND.
Whatever their taste in literature, the blind of to-day can get reading to their liking in the special Braille system which enables them to read by touch. The National Library for the Blind now supplies 10,000 people with free reading matter, and tho fiction available is by " Sapper," John Buchan, Dickens, Edgar Wallace and Galsworthy. Tho library includes 150,000 books of various kinds, and the modern 7s 6d novel presents something of a problem in Braille, for it takes up three .large volumes a foot square. For those of simple taste and poor education there is a system of touch reading which is simpler than Braille. So lack of sight is no barrier to education and enjoyment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20508, 8 March 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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