Which wasn't much, mind you

Some of them are outdated, so those won't be of much use

But there was a big split volume one that has helped me a lot

They said they don't think anyone has checked it out before so it's fine

But that's probably to be a bit expected since is federal document type of stuff. Not exactly exciting material lol

But perfect for me to look at a pro's work

Now I feel a lot more confident splitting up my volumes

I'm so excited for you!

I vaguely remember someone talking about their adventures with Braille library books when I got some orientation training years ago. All the books were split up, but they were only allowed to check out ONE physical book, not all the volumes of a book. So their whole class would decide on a book, check out the

volumes collectively, and read it all out of order as they got passed around.

Oh man

Braille books are big

I think when I split up Dawn of the Future, it'll be around three volumes

It would kind of suck to have to read a book all out of order

I've done it a little bit transcribing because sometimes I'll do chapter 1 and chapter 8 or something lol

Then proofread other chapters

They're absolutely massive, I feel bad for those kids. Still, it must've given an interesting perspective.

I really hope they get the whole "braille kindle reader" down soon. They have it started, but I think the version they have now can make something like 9 lines of text at a time

Which isn't much

(But a lot better than what they had before, which was a single line of text)

it makes sense that they're be ginormous even with all the shortcuts braille uses

An ereader for braille will be a massive, massive difference in access

braille textbooks must be a nightmare

Yeah, a lot of times one print page = 2 or 3 braille pages, and those are big pages

and print can be front-and-back but braille is one side only

Actually, interpoint is front and back!

oh nice

But a lot of people won't have an embosser that does that

It's confusing to hell to look at, as you can imagine lol

That's part of what I was confused on, though

Because when splitting volumes, it describes it as being best to split them into around 100 single-sided braille sheets

As in the paper itself

And it's like, "Wait, but what if it's double-sided??" lol

So I checked the official book over here and it has almost 100 sheets in it, and it's double-sided, so that explains that for me

So I'd actually be splitting them to about 200-ish braille pages, printed on both sides

I feel like it was explained in such a confusing way in the lessons

yeah that makes sense though. since I imagine it's on thicker paper as well, anything like the length visual print novels get to is going to be heavy

Oh yeah, it would get unwieldy!

I'm making two versions myself. One in hopes for the future ereaders (so everything in one volume) and one for embossing

Gotta get ahead of those ereaders

yeah i work with enough cardstock that it's like... 150 pages of 150lb paper is the same amount and weight as like, 500 pieces of regular printer paper

Oh yeah, that's definitely probably about the thickness

printer paper just doesn't stand up to embossing, this is Known

It would probably be a horror show to see how a regular piece of paper took it