Ba Teen Cast

{Music Intro} The following podcast was produced for customers of Minnesota State Services for the Blind. You can find out more about State Services and what they can offer at www.MNSSB.com {Music} Braille is not dead. (So Stop Trying To Kill It) A post by Megan. You can follow Megan’s Blog at WheresYourDog.WordPress.com {Music} Braille Is Not Dead (So Stop Trying To Kill It) I’ve heard the case against braille books, and I agree with all of it. Braille books are bulky, because the braille alphabet is oversized compared to print letters. They aren’t terribly common, as the market for them is so small. They are incredibly expensive to make, so most of us don’t own our own books. We usually end up borrowing them from special libraries and resource centres. Braille is inconvenient: all throughout junior high and high school, my backpack weighed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 25 pounds, because it was crammed full of volumes and volumes of braille. If I also had to carry my laptop case, braill