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Rolling Thunder
10-06-2007, 10:49 PM
Unless you consider:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-10-03-potter-braille_N.htm
Danger Jane
10-06-2007, 11:17 PM
$40,000 just for a signature in there!?!!?! If you're BLIND you can't READ IT!
JoNightshade
10-06-2007, 11:24 PM
If you're BLIND you can't READ IT!

Exactly my thought...
preyer
10-06-2007, 11:31 PM
a cool story idea popped into my head, that being people making 'forbidden' and outlawed literature in braille to fool the authorities. or maybe not so cool....
Medievalist
10-06-2007, 11:33 PM
It's been done, albeit not in braille. The problem with braille is that it takes forever to write anything, and the paper has to be fairly thick. A Braill Harlequin romance is around three or four inches thick.
ChaosTitan
10-06-2007, 11:53 PM
The article doesn't actually say the books themselves are in braille. Only that they are a complete set of the Harry Potter books signed and donated by Rowling, and the proceeds from the auction will go toward producing more books in braille.
SpookyWriter
10-07-2007, 12:10 AM
A Braill Harlequin romance is around three or four inches thick.Let's keep it clean, folks.
PeeDee
10-07-2007, 02:38 AM
Let's keep it clean, folks.

You're making Spooky all jealous.

I like that the vast majority of autographs J.K. Rowling does are for charities. Especially since they fetch such a steep price. I really like that.
SpookyWriter
10-07-2007, 03:57 AM
You're making Spooky all jealous.

I like that the vast majority of autographs J.K. Rowling does are for charities. Especially since they fetch such a steep price. I really like that.I'm blindly jealous of what I can't see without my prescription glasses.